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The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Citizenship in the Global South

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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 Biography:

Brian Watermeyer is Senior Research Officer in the Division of Disability Studies, Department of Health and Rehabilitation sciences, at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.  Judith McKenzie is Associate Professor in the Division of Disability Studies, Department of Health and Rehabilitation sciences, at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.    Leslie Swartz is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.   
Release date Australia
August 21st, 2018
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Brian Watermeyer
  • Edited by Judith McKenzie
  • Edited by Leslie Swartz
Edition
1st ed. 2019
Illustrations
9 Tables, color; 9 Illustrations, color; 4 Illustrations, black and white; XXI, 376 p. 13 illus., 9 illus. in color.
Pages
376
ISBN-13
9783319746746
Product ID
27556260

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