Exploring how the social model of disability can be re-invigorated: in response to Mike Oliver

This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor and Francis in Disability and Society on 21/03/2017, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2017.1300390 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.In his 2013 article in Disability & Society, Oliver recommended that the social model should either be replaced or re-invigorated. I argue here that the social model’s current emphasis reflects the social conditions in which it was introduced, and that the model’s impact on disabled people’s lives would increase if its emphasis was to more accurately reflect the current social conditions in the geographical regions in which it is applied. In order to help foster its re-invigoration, I ask five questions for discussion on the way forward for the social model. I identified my questions through examining published writing on the scope of the social model and on the model’s relationship with other models of disability