Transforming the Rights-Based Encounter: Disability Rights, Disability Justice, and the Ethics of Access

Technical and professional communication (TPC) has recently turned to social justice to interrogate seemingly neutral documents’ impacts on marginalized populations, including disabled individuals. In workplace contexts, such efforts are often impeded by rights-based discourse that maintains ableist...

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Published inJournal of business and technical communication Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 326 - 354
Main Authors Bennett, Kristin C., Hannah, Mark A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.07.2022
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Disability
Social justice
disability studies
disability justice
ethics
social justice
technical and professional communication
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Summary:Technical and professional communication (TPC) has recently turned to social justice to interrogate seemingly neutral documents’ impacts on marginalized populations, including disabled individuals. In workplace contexts, such efforts are often impeded by rights-based discourse that maintains ableist institutional spaces and impedes efforts toward broader institutional change. Recognizing that TPC practitioners likely will encounter rights-based discourse, this article offers an ethical decision-making framework that couples the field's previous disability studies work with disability justice. We offer guidelines and a critical vocabulary for bridging legal rights and social justice concerns to inspire ethical articulations of disability access needed for transformative change.
ISSN:1050-6519
1552-4574
DOI:10.1177/10506519221087960