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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on September 4, 2007
Community Development Journal 2007 42(4):527-529; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsm043
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Strength – Broadsides from Disability on the Arts

Sue Challis

Jill Bedford

email: ms.challis@btopenworld.com

Paddy Masefield , Trentham Books, Stoke on Trent, 2006, 230 pp. ISBN-10 1858563801, £19.99

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This book is a deeply personal treatise connecting experience to the very tangible social constructs around Dis-Ability.

We are writing as what Masefield calls TAP s – temporarily able people – with experience of working in community development and community arts: his own life exemplifies this. Masefield was a respected and successful theatre director and community arts manager when, at forty-four, he developed a debilitating and devastating myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), which rendered him speechless and almost immobile. Indeed, one of the most powerful parts of the book is where he describes his own transition from able to disabled like ‘trying to run a car on a torch battery’. A very useful ‘way in’ to all of this . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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