Rupturing Concepts of Disability and Inclusion

TABLE OF CONTENTS
4.7.4 Summarising the Contemporary Philosophies
of Normalisation and Disability Rights ..............................................121
4.8 Chapter Summary........................................................................................124
CHAPTER FIVE: Wiping Away The Calendering For Ethical
Understanding: Exploring Expressions of Selvedges of Definition,
An Ethic of Normalcy, and An Ethic of Anomaly.................................................127
5.1 Introduction .................................................................................................127
5.2 Selvedges of Definition ...............................................................................127
5.2.1 Selvedges as Boundaries of Socio-Ethical Space...............................127
5.2.2 Defining Identities of Otherness.........................................................132
5.2.3 Refiguring Boundaries........................................................................139
5.3 An Ethic of Normalcy .................................................................................140
5.3.1 Normalcy as a Concept.......................................................................140
5.3.2 What is Normal? .................................................................................142
5.3.2.1 Normal as a Standard..............................................................142
5.3.2.2 Normal as an Imperative.........................................................144
5.4 An Ethic of Anomaly...................................................................................149
5.4.1 Considering Identity Constructions ....................................................151
5.4.2 An Affirmed Normal Identity.............................................................155
5.4.3 A Vulnerable Anomalous Identity......................................................160
5.5 Summary......................................................................................................163
PART THREE: DESIGNING THE QUILT: CONSIDERING ETHICAL
TEMPLATES.........................................................................................................165
CHAPTER SIX: Patterning for Visibility: Evoking an Ethical Framework
to Prepare Conceptual Templates of Inclusion ......................................................167
6.1 A Traditional View of Ethics ......................................................................167
6.2 A Critical Review of the Literature and Personal Reflection
on the Relationship Between Ethics and Intellectual Disability..................175
6.2.1 The Bioethical Context Examines Different Moral
Dilemmas Which are Commonly the Domain of Medical
or Functional Concerns.......................................................................176
6.2.2 The Political Philosophical Context Examines Issues
in Relation to Rights and Justice ........................................................182
6.2.3 Discourse of Disqualification .............................................................183
6.3 A Hermeneutics of Suspicion......................................................................186
6.3.1 Defining and Applying a Hermeneutics of Suspicion........................186
6.3.2 Responding to a Hermeneutics of Suspicion......................................189
6.4 Introducing an Applied Ethics Framework for Understanding
Inclusion.......................................................................................................195
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