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[Update 6 Dec 2011: <a title=\"Comment from Mike Oliver\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slewth.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/02\/vic-finkelstein-wikipedia-entry\/#comment-157\">Mike Oliver has indicated that obituaries are planned for the Independent and Guardian<\/a>]. [Update 19 Dec 2011: <a title=\"Vic Finkelstein Obituary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/vic-finkelstein-academic-anddisability-activist-6277679.html\">The Independent: Vic Finkelstein Obituary<\/a>, update 22 Dec 2011: <a title=\"Vic Finkelstein Obituary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/society\/2011\/dec\/22\/vic-finkelstein\">The Guardian: Vic Finkelstein Obituary<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to make Vic&#8217;s huge contribution to disability studies and the disabled people&#8217;s movement available to a wider audience I&#8217;ve begun a wikipedia page:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vic_Finkelstein\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/<wbr>Vic_Finkelstein<\/wbr><\/a>. \u00a0Vic was a pioneer and stalwart of the disabled people&#8217;s movement, his life story is testament to this. As Colin Barnes has stated &#8211; his\u00a0contribution\u00a0to disability studies was\u00a0unprecedented. \u00a0This is a very basic page\u00a0by no means a sufficient reflection of Vic&#8217;s life and work. \u00a0In this respect, the page would benefit greatly from other people&#8217;s contributions. Wikipedia is collaborative, so I hope that you will consider contributing to the <a title=\"Vic Finkelstein wikipedia page\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vic_Finkelstein\">Vic Finkelstein wikipedia entry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can edit the page yourself directly if you <a title=\"Create an account with wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&amp;returnto=Register&amp;campaign=ACP3\">create an account with wikipedia<\/a>.\u00a0However, if you are not familiar with wikis, do not wish to register, or find wikipedia inaccessible (notably I had to complete a visual CAPTCHA to publish the initial page), please send text, specific edits and additional references to me directly and I will try to enter them on your behalf. \u00a0You can contribute via email to selewthwaite at gmail dot com, or by commenting below.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\r\n\t\t<!-- BEGIN ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) -->\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">\r\n\t\t<!--\r\n\t\t\/\/ ODIOGO_START:do_NOT_remove_this_comment\r\n\t\tshowOdiogoReadNowButton (\"687068\", \"Vic Finkelstein Wikipedia Entry\", \"1407\", 290, 55);\r\n\t\t\/\/ -->\r\n\t\t<\/script>\r\n\t\t<br\/>\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">\r\n\t\t<!--\r\n\t\tshowInitialOdiogoReadNowFrame (\"687068\", \"1407\", 290, 0);\r\n\t\t\/\/ ODIOGO_END:do_NOT_remove_this_comment\r\n\t\t\/\/ -->\r\n\t\t<\/script>\r\n\t\t<!-- END ODIOGO LISTEN BUTTON v2.5.7 (WP) -->\r\n\t\t\n<p>Yesterday I heard the sad news of the recent death of disability activitst and writer, Vic Finkelstein. \u00a0 To those who knew him and have been touched by his work, this is a huge loss. \u00a0At present, there seem to be few indications that Vic will\u00a0receive\u00a0the high-profile national obituary that his reputation demands (although I [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[66,191,190,189],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-disability","tag-disability-studies","tag-social-model-of-disability","tag-vic-finkelstein","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slewth.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}