Disability Politics: Understanding Our Past, Changing Our Future - Softcover

Campbell, Jane; Oliver, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415079993 ISBN 13: 9780415079990

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

Presents a series of perspectives on the process of self-organisation of disabled people which took placein the last part of the twwntieth It has interviews with disabled people who are involved with the rise of the disability movement.

About this title

About the Author

Jane Campbell has specialised in the areas of disability rights and independent living and was a recent Chair of the British Council of Disabled People. During her term in office she has seen the organisation through some of its most pioneering work in the field of independent living, civil rights, peer counselling and equal opportunities. She is currently running a training and project management consultancy in disability rights and independent living.,
Mike Oliver is a disabled academic and political activist. He served on the management committees of SKILL and SIA when they were formed and he was a founding council member of the BCODP, in which he continues to be involved through their research sub-group. He is also a member of DAN. He is to date the only Professor of Disability Studies in Britain, and has published numerous books and articles on disability issues.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415079993
• ISBN 13: 9780415079990
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240