ABSTRACT
Disability theory has engaged in a variety of critical and investigative pursuits ranging from the cultural and historical specificity of dominant representations of disabled people and the genealogies of eugenic policies, to images of disabled people in the media and literature, and the intersection between disability and ethnicity and/or queer sexualities. Following the Universal Declaration of Human Rights a number of international treaties and conventions have emphasised the dignity, inherent value, and equal rights that are to be granted to persons with disabilities. Within the UK, the populist press coverage seems to particularly deserve some attention since, according to the Turn2Us report, up until 2011 the British tabloids showed a trend to report disability in a negative light. The share of stories with negative language was lower in the Daily Mirror , but it went beyond two-thirds for the other tabloids.
