Labels Are For Jars Not People: emancipatory approaches to working with young Disabled people by Mark Harrison

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Labels Are For Jars Not People: emancipatory approaches to working with young Disabled people by Mark Harrison

This book is based on work spread over forty-five years with young Disabled people in Bromley, Greater Manchester, Norfolk and West London. It is written to critically explore ideas and practices in work with young Disabled people.

The intended readership is young Disabled people themselves and all those working with young Disabled people in whatever settings this takes place, including Disabled people working in Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs). It is also aimed at non-Disabled practitioners, professionals and volunteers working in a wide variety of situations; in education, in voluntary and statutory sector youth and community organisations; practitioners in allied health, mental health, leisure, recreation, cultural and arts settings. It is designed to provide an introduction to students and academics/lecturers who are involved in disability studies or subjects that include disability and to inform practitioners who wish to learn a specialism, or staff in allied sectors who want to understand more about disability and how youth Social Action work approaches and coproduction can support their work in this field.

“This book is important. It provides a timely intervention into the key issues affecting young disabled people’s participation, influence, and authority within decision-making processes. It highlights the necessity to produce accessible, participatory, and inclusive spaces, whilst identifying the ideas, and practices, that deny choice, control, and self-determination. The book engages critically with the unnecessary restrictions imposed upon young disabled people (and the disabled people’s community more broadly) and provides ideas and activities to remove these restrictions. It provides a space for important reflections on the processes of disablement and the routes towards our liberation.”

Dr Miro Griffiths, Disability Studies Scholar, University of Leeds

"It is good to read a book that centres Young Disabled people and their participation in the Disabled Peoples Movement. The book draws a balance between theory and practice by explaining the core values and principles that are necessary for equity and inclusion which makes it a useful tool for enabling Young Disabled people's participation in youth activity, social justice movements as well as influence policy and decision makers."

Michelle Daley, Director, Alliance for Inclusive Education

"This resource brings together theory alongside practical examples and activities which support youth social action. In the current climate resources like this are critical to ensuring that disabled young people are provided with opportunities which are meaningful and empowering."

Zara Todd, Disabled Consultant

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