title: Producing boundary-breaking texts on disability issues: the personal politics of collaboration.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This article explores the reflection on a process of inter-collaborative team work to produce a photographic book on caregivers' experiences of parenting their disabled children. The team of authors consisted of members with diverse backgrounds, including media studies, social science and photography. The purpose of this article was to explore and gain a deeper understanding of the process of boundary breaking, one which is important if we are to develop new knowledges and new ways of thinking about disability.
  
  
  METHODS
  In-depth interviews were conducted with all contributors to the book.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Themes emerging from the interviews include the existence of different worlds, crossing boundaries, questions about expertise, conflicting hopes and expectations, and the ethics of anonymity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  An account of the anxieties, the frustrations and rewarding aspects of the collaboration is provided. We conclude that "us" and "them" categorization permeates our thinking. It characterizes some of the most simplistic thinking in the world of disability--able-bodied vs. disabled. In reality, there are no such categories, we all reside along a highly differentiated continuum of changing states of impairment and health. If we open ourselves up to this reality, we can meet one another and draw on one another's knowledge and experience.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, Matieland, South Africa. lswartz@sun.ac.za
authors.forename: Leslie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Swartz
authors.forename: Amelia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: van der Merwe
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Buckland
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: McDougall
mesh_terms: D001877:Books; D017028:Caregivers; D002648:Child; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D019988:Children with Disabilities; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D016487:Parenting; D011057:Politics