Disability culture
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Name (Hebrew)
תרבות נכות
Name (Latin)
Disability culture
Name (Arabic)
ثقافة الإعاقة
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Subculture
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Wikidata:
Q11900319
Library of congress:
sh2021003871
Sources of Information
- Work cat: Wong, Alice, Disability visibility, 2020:page xxii ("Disability is sociopolitical, cultural, and biological. Being visible and claiming a disabled identity brings risks as much as it brings pride")
- Rimmerman, Arie, Social inclusion of people with disabilities, 2013:page 72 ("Disability culture can be interpreted as a sense of common identity and common interests that positions people with disabilities as separate from others")
- Disability, Culture, and Identity, 2003:page 1 ("Disabled people have forged their own cultures as acts of resistance. Culture, therefore, is both a source of oppression and liberation for disabled people, and is therefore central to the politics of disability")
- pages 34-50 (Disability culture is not the same as how different cultures treat different disabilities. It is a set of artifacts, beliefs, expressions created by disabled people ourselves to describe our own life experiences. It is not how we are treated, but what we have created. We have all encountered oppression because of our disabilities. Disability culture in the southwest of the U.S. may be very different than in the northeast U.S. or Europe or Africa, but we share similarities as well. Finally, we have most often begun in the area of cross-disability culture, meaning all disabilities and cultures. We are aware they are [sic] may be nuances, or even larger differences between some of us, but we have had to start somewhere" ( (Disability Studies Quarterly, v. 22, no. 2. (Spring 2002), via WWW, accessed April 22, 2021:) )
- "Disability culture, the sum total of behaviours, beliefs, ways of living, and material artifacts that are unique to persons affected by disability. Particular definitions of culture take many different forms and are context-bound (dependent on the cultural and geographic context in which they are formed), but three common ways of thinking about disability culture are (1) historical, (2) social and political, and (3) personal and aesthetic. Historical definitions of disability culture focus on art, poetry, language, and social community developed by disabled people. Definitions of disability culture that blend the social and the political focus on a minority-group distinction with common values of social and economic justice, radical democracy, and self-empowerment. Notions of disability culture grounded in the personal and the aesthetic emphasize a way of living and positive identification with being disabled" ( (Britannica Online entry "disability culture", accessed April 22, 2021:) )
- LC database, April 15, 2021(disability culture)