School of Sociology and Social Policy

In memory of Vic Finkelstein

07 December 2011 | Matthew Wilkinson

In memory of Vic Finkelstein who died on Wednesday 30th November 2011. Vic was a Visiting Senior Research Fellow here in the Centre for Disability Studies, School of
Sociology and Social Policy, between 1995 and 2008, and universally acclaimed as one of the most important figures in the history of the ongoing struggle for meaningful equality for disabled people both in Britain and the rest of the world,

As a disabled activist and writer since the 1960s in South Africa and Britain, Vic’s contribution to our understanding of the oppression of disabled people is unprecedented. In many respects we are all living in Vic’s shadow…

On behalf of everyone here at CDS at Leeds may we express our deepest condolences to his daughters Anna and Rebecca.

A selection of Vic’s writings can be found in the disability archive which you can access by clicking here

Colin Barnes