Norwegian rehabilitation policies and the coordination reform’s effect: a critical discourse analysis

Anne-Stine B. Røberg; Marte Feiring; Grace I. Romsland

doi:10.1080/15017419.2016.1196242

Norwegian rehabilitation policies and the coordination reform’s effect: a critical discourse analysis

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

Volume 19 (2017): Issue 1

By: Anne-Stine B. Røberg, Marte Feiring and Grace I. Romsland

Open Access

|Jun 2017

Abstract

This article applies a critical discourse analysis of two Norwegian White Papers published within a period of 10 years, and that focused on rehabilitation policies. Concerning the way medical and socio-political conceptual models are embedded in the texts, the analysis has revealed three orders of rehabilitation discourse: The discourse of reaction, the discourse of action, and the discourse of pro-action. The analysis outlines the repositioning of rehabilitation to adhere to socio-political approaches; however, it also questions whether this social turn has some unintended consequences.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15017419.2016.1196242 | Journal eISSN: 1745-3011

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Language: English

Page range: 56 - 68

Submitted on: Jan 7, 2016

Accepted on: May 27, 2016

Published on: Jun 1, 2017

Published by: Stockholm University Press

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Norway,

rehabilitation,

coordination,

reform,

social turn

© 2017 Anne-Stine B. Røberg, Marte Feiring, Grace I. Romsland, published by Stockholm University Press
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