Temporal negotiations of social inclusion : temporality, mobility, and encounter in disabled people's lifeworlds : commentary on "Using the concept of encounter" (Bigby & Wiesel, 2018)

A term with wide-ranging meaning and political import, social inclusion has motivated change across the disability policy landscape and within everyday lives of people with disabilities. A sign of the ascension of disability rights globally, social inclusion is now embedded within the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Art. 2, 19, 24, 26). As a normative ideal, it has had radical implications, reshaping biographies of people with disabilities through material enhancements in services, supports, and institutional processes of governing that secure the lifeworlds of people with disabilities for the better (Johnson & Walmsley, 2010). Governments, globally and nationally, are sculpting policies, programs, and practices, such as Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme, to attempt to realise varying understandings of social inclusion. It has been operative in the staggered trajectories of people with disabilities, across time, from the isolated institution to socalled community-based living options, such as group homes (Clement & Bigby, 2009). Yet, despite various national-level reforms to disability policy on the principles of social inclusion, its enactment in the lives of people with disabilities remains elusive and variegated, particularly for people with intellectual disabilities (Hall, 2010).