In(ter)dependent lives

Karen Christensen

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Resumé

This article suggests it is important to confront independence, one of the key concepts of our time, with empirical analysis of how this is actually practised by individuals in their everyday life. Within social politics, the cash-for-care system is seen as a notable tool of independence because people receive cash instead of care in order to employ their own care workers. Using a cross-national case study of cash-for-care for disabled people in the UK and Norway the present article points at two different social political interpretations of independence and suggests that neither of them lead to independence in terms of control and that assistance without care is impossible. A narrative analysis rather reveals that the cultural narrative about independence can be in disharmony with disabled people's personal narratives about limited control and care and that this should lead to a replacement of the idea of independence with the praxis of interdependence.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftScandinavian Journal of Disability Research
Vol/bind11
Udgave nummer2
Sider (fra-til)117-130
ISSN1501-7419
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2009
Udgivet eksterntJa

Emneord

  • Independence
  • Interdependence
  • Cash-for-care
  • Disabled people

Citer dette

Christensen, Karen. / In(ter)dependent lives. I: Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. 2009 ; Bind 11, Nr. 2. s. 117-130.
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Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review

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