Thesis
Vulnerability and Power to Shape the Future
University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Master of Arts, University of the Sunshine Coast
2017
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25907/00351
Abstract
Shaping ones own future is a powerful, life-affirming act. For people with disability, their families, friends and allies, shaping the future has historically been a difficult, often adversarial process which has relied on negative images and stereotypes of vulnerability, abuse and neglect at the hands of an unresponsive "system". Current reforms, the National Disability Insurance Scheme in particular, offer an opportunity for a more collaborative, positive and citizen-led approach to creating a good life. This project has used Causal Layered Analysis and Sense-Making processes to explore the ways in which we define and respond to our own vulnerability, the mental images we generate as part of that response, and what that means in terms of power to influence the future. Findings suggest that while vulnerability and power to shape the future can and do co-exist, there are significant tensions between the community being both answer to inclusion and a dangerous place. There are invisible assumptions of poverty and low expectations for the future that will need to be examined and re-constructed if the National Disability Insurance Scheme is to be all it promises.
Details
- Title
- Vulnerability and Power to Shape the Future
- Authors
- Valmae Rose
- Contributors
- Marcus P Bussey (Supervisor)
- Awarding institution
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Degree awarded
- Master of Arts
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- DOI
- 10.25907/00351
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Engage Research Lab; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450455102621
- Output Type
- Thesis
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