Following the appalling abuse of people with learning disabilities documented by the BBC Panorama programme, Dan Goodley and Katherine Runswick-Cole are sharing their paper “The Violence of Disablism” again as they try to make sense of the continued violence in disabled people’s lives.
The violence of disablism
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