Brown - What is disability culture?
Brown S.E. (2002). What is disability culture? Disability Studies Quarterly, 22(2): 34-50.
The word "disability" has different connotations to diverse cultures just as the word "culture" does. The definition of disability that may have become the most known is that of someone who has a major life impairment preventing them from participating easily in a major activity such as walking, seeing, hearing, thinking. But that definitionis one of only dozens in the United States alone. Worldwide there may be hundreds, if not thousands, of definitions of disability and the same applies to the idea of culture. Any word that has such historical and contemporaneous significance will create controversy and interest.
Steven E. Brown “What Is Disability Culture?”