ABSTRACT This article aims to reorient thinking about the relationship between the long-standing social model of disability and the rapidly emerging human rights model. In particular, it contests the influential view that the latter develops and improves upon the former (the improvement thesis) and argues instead that the two models are complementary (the complementarity thesis). The article begins with a discursive analysis of relevant documents to investigate how each of the two models has been used in the crafting and monitoring of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This highlights the increasing importance of the human rights model in this policy context. It also provides examples of the operation of the two models which inform the remainder of the discussion. We then critique the comparisons between the models which underpin the improvement thesis; and, drawing on Foucault’s technologies of power and Beckett and Campbell’s ‘oppositional device’ methodology, deepen and develop this comparative analysis. The result, we argue, is that the two models have different subjects and different functions. In the human rights context, their roles are complementary and supportive.

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残疾的社会和人权模式：走向互补论

摘要 本文旨在重新思考长期存在的残疾社会模式与迅速兴起的人权模式之间的关系。特别是，它反驳了后者在前者基础上发展和改进的有影响力的观点（改进论点），相反，它认为这两个模型是互补的（互补论点）。本文首先对相关文件进行了广泛的分析，以调查这两种模型中的每一种是如何用于制定和监督联合国《残疾人权利公约》的。这突显了人权模式在此政策背景下的重要性日益增加。它还提供了两个模型的操作示例，为讨论的其余部分提供了信息。然后，我们批评支持改进论文的模型之间的比较；并且，利用福柯的权力技术以及贝克特和坎贝尔的“对立装置”方法论，深化和发展了这种比较分析。我们认为，结果是这两种模型具有不同的主题和不同的功能。在人权背景下，他们的作用是互补和支持的。