Disability Rights Monitoring And Social Change

Author : Marcia H. Rioux,Paula C. Pinto,Gillian Parekh
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Human rights monitoring
ISBN : 9781551307411

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Disability, Rights Monitoring, and Social Change by Marcia H. Rioux,Paula C. Pinto,Gillian Parekh Pdf

The 2006 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has provided a significant catalyst and a legal mandate for disability rights monitoring, and discussions on disability rights are breaking new ground across disciplines. Disability, Rights Monitoring, and Social Change is an important and timely collection that explores and challenges the ways in which disability rights are monitored. The contributors to this edited volume range from grassroots activists to international scholars and United Nations advisors. The chapters address the current theoretical, methodological, and practical issues surrounding disability rights monitoring and offer a detailed look at law and policy reforms, best practices, and holistic methods. This unique compilation crosses the divide between the global South and North and explores the complex issues of intersectionality that arise for women with disabilities, Indigenous peoples with disabilities, and people with diverse disabilities. Its participatory methodology-calling for the inclusion of people with disabilities in processes that involve them-and its local and international perspective make this book a critical contribution to the fields of rights monitoring and disability studies. Appropriate for courses on disability, human rights, social justice, policy, and advocacy, this volume serves as a guide and learning tool for anyone interested in disability rights monitoring and, more generally, the effective practice of monitoring human rights.

Author : Sonali Shah,Mark Priestley
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847427861

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Disability and Social Change by Sonali Shah,Mark Priestley Pdf

'Disability and Social Change' will reveal how life has changed for disabled people growing up in Britain over the past 70 years, from the 1940s to the present day. It seeks to provide an in-depth examination of the interplay between individual biography and social context.

Author : Marcia H. Rioux
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1801 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789811960567

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Handbook of Disability by Marcia H. Rioux Pdf

Author : Len Barton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134138418

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Disability, Politics and the Struggle for Change by Len Barton Pdf

This book seeks to explore how disability is understood and the position and experiences of disabled people both within and across different societies. The authors explore the question of politics in relation to specific struggles, providing a wealth of insights and ideas, and examine the nature and value of a social model of disability. They criticize exclusionary barriers while advancing a more democratic and participatory society based on principles of equality, offer cross-cultural insights and present stimuli for debate and further research. The text is accessible, topical, and provides new and innovatory thinking. This book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, lecturers and researchers with interests in education, social policy, sociology and disability studies.

Author : Daniel Pateisky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000367102

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International Disability Rights Advocacy by Daniel Pateisky Pdf

This book provides insight into the globally interlinked disability rights community and its political efforts today. By analysing what disability rights activism contributes to a global power apparatus of disability-related knowledge, it demonstrates how disability advocacy influences the way we categorise, classify, distribute, manipulate, and therefore transform knowledge. By unpacking the mutually constitutive relations between (practical) moral knowledge of international disability advocates and (formal) disability rights norms that are codified in international treaties such as the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the author shows that the disability rights movement is largely critical of statements that attempt to streamline it. At the same time, cross-cultural disability rights advocacy requires images of uniformity to stabilise its global legitimacy among international stakeholders and retain a common meta-code that visibly identifies its means and aims. As an epistemic community, disability rights advocates simultaneously rely on and contest the authority of international human rights infrastructure and its language. Proving that disability rights advocates contribute immensely to a global culture that standardises what is considered morally and legally ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, thereby shaping the human body and the body politic, this book will be of interest to all scholars and students of critical disability studies, sociology of knowledge, legal and linguistic anthropology, social inequality, and social movements.

Author : Karen Soldatic,Kelley Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351237475

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Global Perspectives on Disability Activism and Advocacy by Karen Soldatic,Kelley Johnson Pdf

This book explores the diverse ways in which disability activism and advocacy are experienced and practised by people with disabilities and their allies. Contributors to the book explore the very different strategies and campaigns they have used to have their demands for respect, dignity and rights heard and acted upon by their communities, by national governments and the international community. The book, with its contemporary global focus, makes a significant contribution to the field of disability and social justice studies, particularly at a time of major social, political and cultural upheaval. Global Perspectives on Disability Activism and Advocacy offers a significant intervention within the field of disability at a time of major social upheaval where actors, advocates and activists are seeking to hold onto existing claims for rights, equality and disability justice.

Author : Marcia H. Rioux,Lee Ann Basser,Melinda Jones
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004189584

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Critical Perspectives on Human Rights and Disability Law by Marcia H. Rioux,Lee Ann Basser,Melinda Jones Pdf

This book examines the changing relationship between disability and the law, addressing the intersection of human rights principles, human rights law, domestic law and the experience of people with disabilities. Drawn from the global experience of scholars and activists in a number of jurisdictions and legal systems, the core human rights principles of dignity, equality and inclusion and participation are analyzed within a framework of critical disability legal scholarship.

Author : Sally Robinson,Karen R. Fisher
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 889 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800373655

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Research Handbook on Disability Policy by Sally Robinson,Karen R. Fisher Pdf

Examining how policy affects the human rights of people with disabilities, this topical Handbook presents diverse empirical experiences of disability policy and identifies the changes that are necessary to achieve social justice.

Author : Brian Watermeyer
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0796921377

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Disability and Social Change by Brian Watermeyer Pdf

This powerful volume represents the broadest engagement with disability issues in South Africa yet. Themes include theoretical approaches to, and representations of, disability; governmental and civil society responses to disability issues; aspects of education as these pertain to the oppression/liberation of disabled people; social security for disabled people; the complex politics permeating service provision relationships; and a consideration of disability in relation to human spaces - physical, economic and philosophical. Firmly located within the social model of disability, this collection resonates powerfully with contemporary thinking and research in the disability field and sets a new benchmark for cutting-edge debates in a transforming South Africa.

Author : Michele Moore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135742966

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Moving Beyond Boundaries in Disability Studies by Michele Moore Pdf

What challenges are posed by changing transnational trends, agendas and movements that affect disabled people’s lives, and what can disabled people, their representative organisations and their governments do to advance the agenda for self-determination and inclusion? This book draws together the writing of academics and activists to depict the experience and perspective of disabled people in relation to a range of contemporary social changes, with a focus firmly on ways in which disabled people and their allies can act to counter disabling policies and practices. Throughout the book there is an emphasis on disabled people’s own voices and activism as the critical driver of theoretical critique and practical change. Chapters address a wide range of cultural, institutional and personal arenas to explore and contest the boundaries that disabled people seek to move beyond, from cross-border labour movements in Korea to experience of day services in England, from continuing and long-lasting realities of wars in Lebanon, Cambodia and Somalia to the beauty of harmony in Navajo traditions for understanding disability, from collective activism to individual participation in the Olympics. This book is recommended reading for students, researchers and activists interested in Disability Studies and is directly relevant to policy makers and practitioners in a position to reshape rights, spaces and innovations in response to the priorities disabled people feel and articulate are important for their lives. It was originally published as a special issue of Disability & Society.

Author : Mark Priestley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521797349

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Disability and the Life Course by Mark Priestley Pdf

Disability and the Life Course, first published in 2001, explores the global experience of disability using a novel life course approach. The book explores how disabling societies impact on disabled people's life experiences, and highlights the ways in which disabled people have acted to take more control over their own lives. It provides a unique combination of analysis, policy issues and autobiography, offering the reader a rare opportunity to make links between the theoretical, the political and the personal in a single volume. The material is set in a truly international context, with contributions from thirteen different countries bringing together established and emerging writers, both disabled and non-disabled. The book bridges some important gaps in the existing disability literature by including issues relevant to disabled people of all ages and with different kinds of impairments and also by offering a unique analysis of the relationship between disability and generation in a changing world.

Author : Lee Ann Basser Marks,Melinda Jones
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004481770

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Disability, Divers-ability and Legal Change by Lee Ann Basser Marks,Melinda Jones Pdf

This text ventures into the area where law and disability intersect. Drawing on developments in the emerging field of disability studies and on a new-found human rights perspective on disability, the contributions traverse topics as wide-ranging as citizenship, feminism, eugenics, euthanasia, and sexual abuse of people with disabilities, and analyze disability law at both a domestic and international level. Informed by the social model of disability, this work brings together academics and disability activists from Australia, Europe and North America. The book is interdisciplinary in nature, with contributors coming from sociology, education, law, geography, philosophy, and cultural studies.

Author : Ravi Malhotra,Morgan Rowe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136015441

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Exploring Disability Identity and Disability Rights through Narratives by Ravi Malhotra,Morgan Rowe Pdf

Building on David M. Engel and Frank W. Munger’s work analyzing the narratives of people with physical and learning disabilities, this book examines the life stories of twelve physically disabled Canadian adults through the prism of the social model of disablement. Using a grounded theory approach and with extensive reporting of the thoughts of the participants in their own words, the book uses narratives to explore whether an advocacy identity helps or hinders dealings with systemic barriers for disabled people in education, employment, and transportation. The book underscores how both physical and attitudinal barriers by educators, employers and service providers complicate the lives of disabled people. The book places a particular focus on the importance of political economy and the changes to the labour market for understanding the marginalization and oppression of people with disabilities. By melding socio-legal approaches with insights from feminist, critical race, and queer legal theory, Ravi Malhotra and Morgan Rowe ask if we need to reconsider the social model of disablement, and proposes avenues for inclusive legal reform.

Author : Brian Watermeyer,Judith McKenzie,Leslie Swartz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319746753

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The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Citizenship in the Global South by Brian Watermeyer,Judith McKenzie,Leslie Swartz Pdf

This handbook questions, debates and subverts commonly held assumptions about disability and citizenship in the global postcolonial context. Discourses of citizenship and human rights, so elemental to strategies for addressing disability-based inequality in wealthier nations, have vastly different ramifications in societies of the Global South, where resources for development are limited, democratic processes may be uncertain, and access to education, health, transport and other key services cannot be taken for granted. In a broad range of areas relevant to disability equity and transformation, an eclectic group of contributors critically consider whether, when and how citizenship may be used as a lever of change in circumstances far removed from UN boardrooms in New York or Geneva. Debate is polyvocal, with voices from the South engaging with those from the North, disabled people with nondisabled, and activists and politicians intersecting with researchers and theoreticians. Along the way, accepted wisdoms on a host of issues in disability and international development are enriched and problematized. The volume explores what life for disabled people in low and middle income countries tells us about subjects such as identity and intersectionality, labour and the global market, family life and intimate relationships, migration, climate change, access to the digital world, participation in sport and the performing arts, and much else.

Author : Emily Julia Kakoullis,Kelley Johnson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811507861

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Recognising Human Rights in Different Cultural Contexts by Emily Julia Kakoullis,Kelley Johnson Pdf

This book explores the journey of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as it is interpreted and translated from International Human Rights Law into domestic law and policy in different cultural contexts. Beginning with reflections on ‘culture’, ‘disability’ and ‘human rights’ from different disciplinary perspectives, the work is then organised as ‘snapshots’ of the journey of the CRPD from the international level to the domestic; the process of ratification, the process of implementation, and then the process of monitoring the CRPD’s implementation in States Parties cultural contexts. Leading global contributors provide cutting-edge accounts of the interactions between the CRPD and diverse cultures, revealing variations in the way that the concept of ‘culture’ is defined. This collection will appeal to academics and students in Law and Socio-Legal Studies, Disability Studies, Policy Studies and Social Work, Sociology, Anthropology; and those training to be service providers with persons with disabilities.