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Patterns of culture and power after 'The Great Release': the history of movements of subculture and empowerment among Danish people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- BYLOV Frank
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 34(3), September 2006, pp.139-145.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article discusses the history of self-advocacy in Denmark. It also gives some information about how services for people with learning difficulties in Denmark have changed over the past 100 years. The author discusses the different types of self-advocacy groups that have grown in Denmark. He describes how these movements have developed in 'generations'. Three 'generations' are identified: movements of cultural role transgression; movements of self-advocacy; and movements of political empowerment. The author draws on theory to help explain some of the developments that self-advocacy groups in Denmark have been through during their history.
New voices: self-advocacy by people with disabilities
- Editors:
- DYBWAD Gunnar, BERSANI Hank Jr.
- Publisher:
- Brookline Books
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 286p.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge, MA
Collection of papers on self advocacy by people with developmental disabilities, many by self advocates themselves. Provides an historical background to the development of the self advocacy movement in the Western world. Examines the current state of self advocacy activities, and concludes by projecting the movement's future course as it continues to be accelerate worldwide amongst people with learning difficulties.
A new movement in an old bureaucracy: the development of self-advocacy in the Czech Republic
- Author:
- SISKA Jan
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 34(3), September 2006, pp.139-145.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The author describes how self-advocacy has grown in the Czech Republic, and provides an overview of its relatively short history within the broader context of political and administrative change toward community-based services, and the slow process of de-institutionalisation. The development of the country's first self-advocacy group is also described. The author highlights the importance of the systematic support for self-advocacy groups in the Czech Republic.
Self-advocacy in historical perspective
- Authors:
- BUCHANAN Ian, WALMSLEY Jan
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 34(3), September 2006, pp.133-138.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper looks at the history of self advocacy in England. It then considers different constructions of self-advocacy as they have emerged over the last 25 years. The authors highlight the tension between self-advocacy as a means for individuals to gain a voice, and affirm identity, and self-advocacy as a collective movement representing the interests of a particular group. The final section is a commentary on the states of self-advocacy in the UK. After Valuing People, people expect self advocacy organizations to speak up for everyone with learning difficulties. The authors argue it is possible to see self-advocacy as a form collective representation privileged over self-advocacy as a means to develop and affirm individual identity. The importance of finding ways to support self advocacy groups, especially those run by people themselves, to avoid this happening.
Human rights: an Act with teeth
- Author:
- EDGE James
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(1), July 2000, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The first author urges solicitors and advocacy organisations to explore the 'enormous possibilities for people with learning difficulties' of the Human Rights Act. The second author, labelled as someone who has learning difficulties, looks at the historical reasons why people's rights have been so neglected.