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People with problems are not the problem : they're the solution.
This rules seems the more important to me : don't pretend to know what people lives.
Experts are educated in universities, that are socially and historically determined. We can't just wait for experts to analyze a social problem, or try to be an expert.
1/ People must find their own solutions.
2/ People must be part of this solutions.
The better exemple is the Foucault's commitment against prisons in the 70's. Some rules were establish to criticize the model of the prison, creating an "no-right" zone - where the little rights maintened weren't respected - in a society based on civil rights. A specific type of study was established with these rules :
1. The questionnary must be made with prisonners and by them
2. The prisonners are interviewers and interviewed : they are filling the questionnary secretly in prisons
3. The people outsides collect the answers and see which are the most present
4. The purpose of the study is to be a hard base of political struggle : from an individual problem, we can do a collective struggle
5. "Outsiders" don't criticize themselves the prisons, they are not gathering informations to say "THIS is intolerable" : they are diffusing what the insiders feels as intelorable.
This create a new speech, against an "official speech", a speech made in the socially/historically determined frame of experts have been determinated to think.
This is not a criticism against experts or abstract "all organization linked to statut quo are domination tools" : this is more a call to extend the frame of thinking, with the people that are on the wrong side of the world today, and not just for them.
Experts are educated in universities, that are socially and historically determined. We can't just wait for experts to analyze a social problem, or try to be an expert.
1/ People must find their own solutions.
2/ People must be part of this solutions.
The better exemple is the Foucault's commitment against prisons in the 70's. Some rules were establish to criticize the model of the prison, creating an "no-right" zone - where the little rights maintened weren't respected - in a society based on civil rights. A specific type of study was established with these rules :
1. The questionnary must be made with prisonners and by them
2. The prisonners are interviewers and interviewed : they are filling the questionnary secretly in prisons
3. The people outsides collect the answers and see which are the most present
4. The purpose of the study is to be a hard base of political struggle : from an individual problem, we can do a collective struggle
5. "Outsiders" don't criticize themselves the prisons, they are not gathering informations to say "THIS is intolerable" : they are diffusing what the insiders feels as intelorable.
This create a new speech, against an "official speech", a speech made in the socially/historically determined frame of experts have been determinated to think.
This is not a criticism against experts or abstract "all organization linked to statut quo are domination tools" : this is more a call to extend the frame of thinking, with the people that are on the wrong side of the world today, and not just for them.
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Comment by Mita Williams on March 3, 2010 at 7:19pm
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Hello Gregory. I think you have described a powerful insight : that people with problems are also people with gifts and specifically, with gifts that can be used overcome problems.
I gave you a +1 in courage for reading Foucault.
I'm kidding of course - the courage point for applying his and your thoughts into service. Welcome to the network!
p.s. Can you please tag your item with LEARN1 so others can find it? Much thanks
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