ABSTRACT
Earlier, I challenged the assumption that the social model was the only progressive or social-contextual approach to disability, and then demonstrated why I believe that the social model fails as a conceptualisation of disability. If disability studies scholars and activists are to abandon the social model, then an alternative socialcontextual approach is needed which can reconcile different aspects of disability, and serve as the basis for a progressive politics. In this chapter, I make an initial contribution to that endeavour.
