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“Well, I Am Now Looking after This Bloody Rabbit!”: Re-Storying Care in the Lives of People with Learning Disabilities

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: This paper seeks to explore how care has been theorised in ways that have served to exclude people with learning disabilities from being recognised as care-givers, and positioned them, instead, almost exclusively, as passive recipients of care. Working with people with learning disabilities, our aim is to explore, recognise and record caring relationships in their lives, paying attention to the care given as well as the care received by people so labelled. We follow Nishida (2022) to argue that we need to be always attentive to spaces of care as potential sites of (in)justice for people with learning disabilities who engage in caring relationships in messy dependency with others.

Source: Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

DOI: 10.16993/sjdr.1303

Authors: Katherine Runswick-Cole, Sara Ryan, Martina Smith, Martha Ward, Charlie Grosset

Institution: University of Sheffield

Language: English

Topic: Disability Rights and Representation

Subfield: Safety Research

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $576