Michael,
Some of us over here on the other side of the pond may not have read the
article that you are talking about. I haven't. Maybe you could post the
article here on the listserve for all to read and comment on.
I take issue to several of your inflamatory remarks, but until I see what
has you so upset I will not respond.
Thomas Hamlett
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> MICHAEL J
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> Subject: Re: essay and discussion on who should do disability research
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> I read the article by Cassuto with a growing sense of disbelief. Has
> he never heard of Britain let alone the substantial work we have
> already done on the relationship between disability and research, as
> well as disability studies more generally.
>
> The world's leading disability studies journal began publishing in
> Britain in 1986 and in 1992 we devoted a whole edition on disability
> research.This has been taken further in publications by Barnes and
> Mercer (1997), Barton and Clough (1996. 1999) and Moore et al (1998).
> As well as that Stone and Priestley made a contribution to the debate
> in the British Journal of Sociology (1996).
>
> More generally Jenny Morris has reflected extensively on the
> relationshipship between her impairment and her work as have I
> drawing on the ideas of Gramsci and his work on organic and
> positional intellectuals.
>
> The position Cassuto takes on self-identification is untenable in
> British disability studies because of the close connection between
> disability studies and the movement. Put simply, disabled people
> would just not tolerate it.
>
> Is Cassuto's position paper a true reflection on the state (and I use
> the term advisedly) of American disability studies? If so, what are
> American scolars trying to do - pursue their own careers, re-invent
> the wheel or intellectually masturbate each other?
>
> Perhaps we should discuss that!
>
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