On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 2:10 PM PST Dan Goodley wrote:
>A lovely testimony
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>thanks Mark
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>Dan
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>On 1 Dec 2011, at 21:13, "Mark Priestley" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> As you will know by now, we were greatly saddened to learn of the death of Vic Finkelstein who was an inspiration and guide through the development of British dsiabled people's movement and critical disability studies. There will be many appreciations and celebrations of Vic's life and contribution and today is not the day for lengthy obituaries but I wanted to mark the exceptional support and guidance that Vic gave so generously to me. It was encountering Vic's writing that first gave me the connection between disability and politics in the 1980s, and revealed the links we shared with involvement in the anti-apartheid movement. it was Vic who grasped the potential of the Internet to transform and democratise academic and activist knowledge, when others were still suspicious, and who gave me that copy of the 'little red book' to become the first document scanned electronically in what would later become the disability archive developed by Colin
Barnes. Vic patiently answered our student emails and helped us clarify our understanding of the development of ideas and politics in the movement. He contributed to the first online discussions on this list in the same spirit (I have archived some of those early exchanges in the files area of the list web page). He was always ahead of the game and could always imagine a better world as genuinely achievable, which is probably what I'd remember him for most. He will be much missed.
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>> Mark
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Dear all,
yes, indeed, for me vic was and will remain my inspiration and champion for the cause of disability not only in terms of the british disability movement as i studied it, but for all disabled people across the world, not least those of us who come from southern africa where i believe he originally hailed from. It is for me quite painful that i regrettably could not get the opportunity to hear this iconic man speak in person even when i was studying for my masters in disability studies at leeds. I wish there could be a way someone could generously send me an audio recording of one of his lectures, if possible. Vic may have gone but his legacy will live on.
Thanks,
kudzai shava, disability rights consultant-zimbabwe
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