This book explores why, after forty years of funded policies of social inclusion, persons living with an intellectual disability are still separated from the social fabric of neoliberal societies. Treanor shows how the nature of the reform process is driven unnecessarily by the economic neoliberal paradigm, the cultural misconceptions of intellectual disability, and the inattention accorded to personal relationships between persons living with and without an intellectual disability.
The book utilizes John Macmurray’s philosophy of personalism, Julia Kristeva’s ontology of disability and Michele Foucault’s concept of bio-power to posit persons living with an intellectual disability first and foremost as persons
qua
persons.
The concepts in this book challenge current approaches to social inclusion and have radical implications for future practices.