Rethinking disability and human rights : participation, equality and citizenship
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Rethinking disability and human rights : participation, equality and citizenship
(Interdisciplinary disability studies)
Routledge, 2023
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book examines the role of disability in the right to political and social participation, an act of citizenship that many disabled people do not enjoy.
The disability rights movement does not accept the use of disability to create limits on citizenship, which poses challenges for contemporary societies that will become ever greater as the science and technology of enhancing human abilities evolves. Comprised of eight chapters, three interludes, and a postscript written by leading scholars and disability rights activists, the book explores citizenship for people with disabilities from an interdisciplinary perspective using the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as a point of departure and the concept of universal design as a strategy for actualizing full citizenship for all. Situating disability in its historical and cultural contexts, the authors offer directions for rethinking citizenship, including implications for access to the built environment, information and communication systems, education, work, community life and politics.
This book will be of interest to all scholars and students working in disability studies, planning, architecture, public health, rehabilitation, social work, and education.
Table of Contents
0.Introduction - Rethinking citizenship and disability. Part One. 1.Exploring the relationship between Citizenship and Universal Design. 2.Veterans from Life: Rehabilitation as Compensation. Interlude One - Life is possible. 3.Rethinking Utopia. Posthumanism, Transhumanism, and Disability. 4.Mad Citizenship. Part Two. 5.Conditions for religious citizenship for people with intellectual disabilities: Cases from Norway and Slovakia. Interlude Two - "Symbiotic citizenship" and a struggle for the right of life as frames for interpreting the 40-day disability protest in the Polish Parliament. 6.The Space of Accessibility and Universal Design. 7.Enabling equal citizenship: Responses from civil society. Interlude Three - Global Disability Summit: How to realize "nothing without us". 8.Universal Human Rights and Universal Design for People with Disabilities: Challenges and Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa. Postscript - Dialogue between Rosemarie Garland-Tomson and Inger Marie Lid.
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