Congratulations
Posted on | December 9, 2005 |
Breaking news: my colleague, Gerard Goggin, and collaborator Christopher Newell, have been recognised for their pioneering work in Disability Studies at the Human Rights Awards. Here’s the press release:
Disability in Australia: Exposing a Social Apartheid by Associate Professor Christopher Newell and Dr Gerard Goggin has been awarded the 2005 Human Rights Arts Non-Fiction Award.
Disability in Australia explores a hidden blight in society - the ways in which the routine, daily and oppressive treatment of people with disabilities denies them dignity. It uses the everyday, untold experiences of life of people with disabilities to make a powerful and persuasive argument about social apartheid. Drawing on a wide range of case studies from health and welfare, sport, biotechnology, deinstitutionalisation, political life, and the treatment of refugees, the book firmly puts disability into a social, political and human rights perspective.
The judges described the book as “provocative, well-written and informative”. They said the authors successfully tackled an ambitious project and highlighted issues that did not usually receive as much attention as they deserved. The judges saw this book as managing to combine the qualities of a passionate manifesto and a cool academic investigation.
The full list of award recipients is here.
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