MATERIALIST AND
POLITICAL ECONOMY THEORIES
POLITICAL ECONOMY THEORIES
These theories argue that the resources needed to survive and the economy determine social relationships, culture, and disability.
What are materialist theories?
This is the national prioritization of the preparation for war, which diverts money away from health care and human welfare.
What is militarism?
Early in American history, people with disabilities were subjected to this system in which people seen as competent held the authority to make decisions for them.
What is paternalism?
The disability industry has shifted from family care to a marketplace selling ________.
What are commodities?
This is characterized by private ownership of the mode of production, mass production, and the expansive commodification of resources for sale in the marketplace.
What is capitalism?
Wallerstein argues that this theory helps explain why low-income nations concentrated in the Global South have disproportionately been affected by mass poverty, disease, and disability.
What is World Systems Theory?
These are the three common political/economic responses to disability.
What are exclusion, the provision of benefits, and the promotion of civil rights and inclusion?
These approaches argue that all people, citizens, and non-citizens, should have the rights and basic resources necessary to live dignified and fulfilling lives.
What are the human rights approaches?
In feudal Europe, life was hard for most people and disability was common, but in some ways disability was less _______ than it is today.
What is meaningful?
Compared to the early days of capitalism, work is now __________ in many ways.
What is safer?
These programs value the ideal of self-sufficiency through employment.
What are social welfare programs?
This movement centers on the experiences of the most marginalized people and aims to achieve collective access and liberation, leaving no one behind.
What is disability justice?
The desire for profit erases the sense of capitalists' obligation to care for the _________ who produce the goods of the society.
Who are the workers?
This political and economic philosophy promotes individual freedom based on a laissez-faire approach to capitalism with little government regulation or public provision of services, contributing to high rates of poverty in the U.S.
What is neoliberalism?
This group of people is portrayed as able but unwilling to work.
Who are the undeserving poor?
One criticism of the Disability Rights Movement was that leaders prioritized rights over _____________ and the provision of a social safety net.
What is intersectional oppression?
This concept suggests that the government and economy are interconnected so that state policies usually serve the interests of elites/capitalists.
What is political economy?
Eighty percent of the world’s people with disabilities live in _________ countries.
What is low-income?
These rights ensure the freedom to act as one wishes without state intervention.
What are negative rights?
This treaty provides a framework by which to implement a human rights approach for people with disabilities.
What is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)?