Sorry, I left the link off. The full text of 'A Critical Condition' is
available online in our Archive at:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/Hunt/a%20critical%20
condition.pdf
The quote was from page 11 in that version (but different in the
original).
Best wishes
Mark
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From: Maria [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 13 July 2006 11:58
To: Mark Priestley; [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: where did the 'barriers' come from?
Mark,
Interesting, where does one find the text with quote that are the at
the
bottom of your text?
Maria
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From: "Mark Priestley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 4:23 AM
Subject: Re: where did the 'barriers' come from?
> Hi
>
> The earliest I've found so far is in the transcript of a talk given to
> doctors by Vic Finkelstein in March 1972 on 'The Psychology of
> Disability'. The transcript is edited but I presume the text is
> otherwise accurate from the tape recording.
>
> "What I, as a disabled person, want to see is that there are ramps,
that
> the kerbs in the streets, etc., are designed in a way that I can
> anticipate that wherever I go, move in society, I will not be faced
with
> 'disabling' barriers." (p10 in the original)
>
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/finkelstein/01%20-%2
> 0Talk%20to%20GPs.pdf
>
> Paul Hunt does use the word 'barriers' once in 'A Critical Condition'
> (1966) but more colloquially and not really in the same sense of
> disabling barriers (and it doesn't appear at all in the text of
'Stigma'
> the same year).
>
> "I know I have instinctive prejudices against lots of people; against
> the able-bodied to start with. It is a basic human characteristic to
> fear and put up barriers against those who are different from
> ourselves."
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Mark
>
>
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of stephen lee
> hodgkins
> Sent: 29 June 2006 11:56
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: where did the 'barriers' come from?
>
> Hiya,
>
> Am just mailing to ask if anyone has information, refs or would hazard
a
> guess regarding the origins of 'barriers' in disability theory and
> activism.
> I am doing some research looking at disability language use and want
to
> find
> out if prior to the UPIAS '76 articulation of disability in social
model
> terms as 'socially imposed restriction' and 'oppression', a notion of
> 'barriers' was discussed / asserted in theory and activism (or
anywhere
> for
> that matter).
>
> Any comments you may have will be gratefully received.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Stephen
>
>
>
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