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An account of the joint fight for human rights by Flemish Musketeers and their Tinker Ladies
Author(s) -
Roets Griet,
Van de Perre Danny,
Hove Geert Van,
Schoeters Ludo,
Schauwer Elisabeth De
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
british journal of learning disabilities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.633
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1468-3156
pISSN - 1354-4187
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3156.2004.00280.x
Subject(s) - tinker , flemish , articulation (sociology) , empowerment , power (physics) , resistance (ecology) , politics , perspective (graphical) , sociology , gender studies , psychology , aesthetics , political science , law , history , philosophy , visual arts , art , ecology , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , biology , anthropology
Summary The Musketeer book One for All – All for One! A joint fight for human rights (Onze Nieuwe Toekomst 2002) is a disclosure of oral accounts of people with the label of ‘learning difficulties’. The Musketeer book is particularly an articulation of their individual and collective politics of resistance. With this collection of stories – taken from life – true activists and their allies hope to bring tangible shifts in beliefs and attitudes in disabling society. In this paper, the Head Musketeer Danny and his right‐hand Musketeer Ludo reflect upon their relational perspective on the process of (self‐)empowerment with their Tinker Ladies. Our experience unfolds like walking a high wire. Our Flemish perspective reveals a profound awareness of power dynamics in an intensely felt cooperative research process.