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SSA Ontology

Concept schemes

Thematic collections that organise SSA concepts without flattening each term into a single institutional category.

Accessibility Abuse

Patterns in which accessibility language, processes or claims are used to impose compliance, obscure barriers or silence disabled people.

Coercive Collaboration

Patterns in which participation or collaboration is structured so that refusal, disagreement or withdrawal carries disproportionate cost.

Co Opted Patterns

Patterns through which lived knowledge, language or methods are absorbed, relabelled and detached from their authors or political meaning.

Digital Extraction

Patterns in which platforms, systems or institutions capture data, labour, insight or identity without proportionate agency, return or control.

Digital Sovereignty

Terms for retaining meaningful authority over digital identity, data, authorship, access and machine-readable representation.

Exploitation By Design

Patterns where extraction or exclusion is embedded in the ordinary architecture of a service, policy, platform or programme.

Extractive Allyship

Patterns in which apparent support creates reputational, informational or institutional value for the ally while reducing control for affected people.

Gatekeeping Devices

Mechanisms, criteria and procedural devices that control access while disguising who holds the power to permit, delay or refuse it.

Institutional Mimicry

Patterns in which institutions reproduce the language or appearance of reform while preserving the underlying distribution of authority.

Legislation Laundering

Patterns in which political or institutional choices are presented as unavoidable legal requirements, obscuring discretion and accountability.

Narrative Laundering

Patterns in which lived accounts are sanitised, reframed or reattributed until institutions can use them without carrying their original claims.

Neurodivergent Pattern Theft

Patterns in which neurodivergent insight, language, methods or pattern recognition are extracted without authorship, consent or return.

Structural Disappearance

Patterns through which people, evidence, contributions or harms are made absent from records, decisions, metrics or public memory.

System Led Distortion

Patterns in which system structures predictably alter the meaning, visibility or consequences of a person’s communication or evidence.

Systemic Bypass

Patterns that route around stated safeguards, duties or participation mechanisms while preserving formal claims of compliance.

Weaponised Access

Patterns in which access, accommodation or support is made conditional, surveilled, punitive or usable as leverage.

Weaponised Positivity

Patterns in which optimism, gratitude or positive framing suppresses evidence of harm, conflict or unmet obligations.

Strategic Self Advocacy Lexicon

The complete concept scheme connecting survivor-authored terms across access, extraction, authorship, institutional power and semantic sovereignty.

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