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Book me a place now! (Will there be paid referees?) Gill. Gill Dixon BHSc Hons, RGN Independent Dyspraxia Advisor/Trainer. > -----Original Message----- > From: [log in to unmask] > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of erik > leipoldt > Sent: 26 June 1999 14:11 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: in or out of the ivory tower? > > > > Is it time to think about an international conference of people in > disability studies, those with disabilities and without, and of those > engaged in disability activism, with an inevitable overlap among the three > constituencies? Aim: to advance the interests and needs of people with > disabilities in combining the strengths of the three groups. > > I can visualise an agenda guaranteed to produce a lively few days: > > *Who sets the disability/advocacy agenda? > *Who should set the disability/advocacy agenda? > *What is on it and what should be on the agenda? > *What tensions play a role among the three groups? > *Exploration of various approaches to disability. > *The value and pitfalls of different approaches to/theories of > disability & > tensions between them. > *Teasing out of the causes and methods that different > approaches identify. > *If we are all saying we are acting in the interest of furthering the > causes(s) of people with disabilities, how can we productively use and > organise our diverse approaches and theories and minimise any potential > negative outcomes to people with disabilities. > *How to keep directly in touch with disability issues on the ground and > how to use academic work in support of grassroots change? > > Just imagine....... Would you want to be there? > > Erik Leipoldt > > At 09:01 26/06/99 +0530, you wrote: > >I agree. It is something like when you are told that ,' oh we do > understand > >that you have a problem but believe you me everyone is disabled in some > >way or the other' > >further it is pointed out that there are so many other categories who are > >as marginalised as PWD"s. In a country like many this is one reason why > >even after 52 years of independence the legislation, which is > also meaning > >less came about in 1996. Like Mairian I too get the feeling of > not finding > >any space for the academic in me as the activism in my country of which I > >am a part is too young to have space for academics. These are > moments when > >I feel that the situation is helpless, but one has to carry on. > >Anita > > > >---------- > >| From: Mairian Corker <[log in to unmask]> > >| To: [log in to unmask] > >| Subject: Re: in or out of the ivory tower? > >| Date: Friday, June 25, 1999 5:23 PM > >| > >| David wrote: > >| > >| > There is scholarship and then there is funded publication (most of > >| >which is very poor scholarship). I am surprised that Mairian would ask > >the > >| >question because it is inherent in society (am I a Marxian, you bet) > >that > >| >people who speak truth to power do not receive funding. It > has taken me > >37 > >| >years, but for the last two years I have not had to rely upon the > >| >University for funding although the U of Hawai`i has provided some > >things > >| >(including travel funds) for me. It is a liberating experience, but to > >| >wait 35 years is too long. > >| > >| I asked the question, David, because you and others had to > wait that long > >| and because I have only seen individual 'campaigns' to do > something about > >| it. My second email may clarify things a bit. Where is the disability > >| movement in supporting those of us in academia? I sometimes ask these > >| questions also because part of my oppression is that a lot of the > >| experiences of disabled academics pass around in informal conversation > >that > >| I have no access to, and those that are published represent > the views of > >| those who have already 'made it'. And there are a lot of non-disabled > >| academics who, when I try to raise these things, retort 'It's the same > >for > >| me!' I'm asking 'Is it?' I get burnt out, stressed and depressed too > >often > >| because when I'm trying to achieve change, I turn round and there's > >no-one > >| there! And please don't tell me that's life! > >| > >| Cheers > >| > >| Mairian > >| > >| Mairian Corker > >| Senior Research Fellow in Deaf and Disability Studies > >| Department of Education Studies > >| University of Central Lancashire > >| Preston PR1 2HE > >| > >| Address for correspondence: > >| 111 Balfour Road > >| Highbury > >| London N5 2HE > >| U.K. > >| > >| Minicom/TTY +44 [0]171 359 8085 > >| Fax +44 [0]870 0553967 > >| Typetalk (voice) +44 [0]800 515152 (and ask for minicom/TTY number) > >| > >| ********* > >| > >| "To understand what I am doing, you need a third eye" > >| > >| ********* > >| > >| > > > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%