PUBLIC LECTURE: Disability Activism and the Price of Success; a British perspective

You are invited to a free public lecture by

Colin Barnes, Professor in Disability Studies, University of Leeds

Abstract:

This talk will focus on the history of the British disabled people's movement and its successes over the last two decades. These include the re-conceptualisation of disability as a social/political, the various legislative and policy changes that have subsequently occurred, and their relative impact on disabled people and their organisations at the national and local levels.

Biographical note:

Colin Barnes is a disability activist, writer and researcher with an international reputation in the field of disability studies and disability research. He is a member of several organisations controlled and run by disabled people and Chair of the British Council of Disabled People (BCODP) and National centre fro Independent Living’s Research Committee. As a committed advocate of disabled people's rights, Colin has spoken about the experience of living with impairment in a variety of locations including the House of Commons, the European Parliament, and on television and the radio.

Colin teaches disability studies and is the founder and Director of the Centre for Disability Studies, an independent publisher: The Disability Press, and the electronic Disability Archive UK. He is an executive editor and regular contributor to the international journal Disability and Society - formerly Disability, Handicap and Society. He has lectured on a wide range of disability related issues both in Britain and overseas including: Austria, Canada, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and the USA.

Colin's many publications include: Cabbage Syndrome: The Social Construction of Dependence (1990); Disabled People in Britain and Discrimination (1991 reprinted in 1994 and 2000); Disabling Imagery and the Media (1992); Making Our Own Choices (1993); and From National to Local (1995), and co-authored Disabled People and Social Policy (1998) with Mike Oliver, Exploring Disability: a Sociological Introduction (1999) with Geof Mercer and Tom Shakespeare and Disability (2003) with Geof Mercer. Edited books include: Exploring the Divide, Illness and Disability (1996); Doing Disability Research (1997); Implementing the Social Model of Disability: Theory and Research (2004); Disability Policy and Practice; Applying the Social Model (2004), all with Geof Mercer, and Disability Studies Today (2002) with Mike Oliver and Len Barton.

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