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From: Mairian Corker <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 12:30:11 +0100
To: Harriet Radermacher <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Source search - Is the disability movement unrepresentative of
the majority?
There is discussion of the movement's membership and 'representative
democracy' in Jane Campbell and Mike Oliver's book "Disability Politics:
Understanding our past changing our future' (1996, London: Routledge). I
think there is some mention of statistics (7%), but statistics are
notoriously unreliable and variable.
Best wishes, Mairian
on 8/5/01 5:04 pm, Harriet Radermacher at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>I'm trying to track down a specific source - I suppose there might be several -
that stated that the people involved in the disability movement only
comprise 5% of the disabled population - it went on to discuss the prospect
that the disability movement is in danger of creating the very system that
it has been fighting to abolish - that is, a system that does not listen to
the voices of the people/consumers themselves and consequently is
unrepresentative of disabled people.
>Please forgive me if this information is inaccurate - hence the reason for
questioning the source! If anyone could enlighten me about this, or a
similar source, it would be much appreciated.
--
Mairian Corker
Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Language Group
School of Education
Kings College London
Waterloo Road
London SE1 8WA
U.K.
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