disCOVER: Self-advocacy in Iceland - an interview with Aileen Svensdottir

* transcript of this interview available at http://cdsmmudocuments.posterous.com/pages/transcription
This is a video in our disCOVER series: where we speak to disability experts, activists and researchers to learn more about challenging disabling society. In this video Dan Goodley interviews Aileen Soffia Svensdóttir, a self-advocate from Iceland, who discusses the importance of disability politics and the need for truly inclusive approaches to disability studies.

We would like to thank the British Academy for an Overseas Conference Grant which partly funded our trip to NNDR 2011 in Iceland where this interview took place.

Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) offers disability studies teaching and research at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the academic departments of Education, English, Law, Psychology, Social Change and Sociology.

Critical disability studies at our university aim to understand and challenge exclusionary and oppressive practices associated with disablism and consider the ways these intersect with other forms of marginalisation including hetero/sexism, racism, poverty and imperialism.

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