As any idea or invention becomes disseminated through a society it changes. Similarly as ideas move from their cultural contexts and take root in another changes occur.
Here Shoji Nakanishi of Disabled People International (DPI) Japan re-clarifies the founding concepts and principles of the Independent Living Movement as it undergoes the two-fold process of mainstreaming in its host context and internationalization to new cultural contexts. The question arises, "Is the new faithful to the intentions of the original?"
See the Independent Living Movement in Developing Countries
Posted by rollingrains at January 3, 2008 11:33 PM