Excerpt from lecture by Vic Finkelstein, Visiting Senior Research Fellow,
Centre for Disability Studies, University of Leeds and Founder member of the
Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation at the Disability
Studies: Putting Theory Into Practice Lancaster, July 2004
......."Disability studies has already demonstrated that emancipatory
research cannot emerge without changes in methodology and funding criteria.
In this paper I argue that disability studies, too, cannot become
emancipatory without fundamental changes to academic course structures.
Disability related conferences, such as this, need to discover emancipatory
ways of presenting our conferences - copying conference models set by people
with capabilities will only make our meetings as sterile as theirs have
become. We cannot participate in a world created by people with capabilities
without changing it. I don't think disabled people have quite got round to
the fact that the social model of disability means 'seeing the whole world
from a new perspective'!.......
Copy of his full lecture at following URL:-
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/apsocsci/events/dsaconf2004/abstracts/finkelstein.htm
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