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Author Meyers, Stephen J., author

Title Civilizing disability society : the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities socializing grassroots disabled persons' organizations in Nicaragua / Stephen J. Meyers
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 180 pages)
Series Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
Cambridge disability, law and policy series.
Contents Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Spending Down a Grant; Grant Guidelines and Guardrails; The Ends, Means, and Organization of Participation; Grassroots DPOs As Their Own Barriers to Their Rights in the Global South; Reshaping DPOs in the Global South; Civilizing Disability Organizations; Reorganizing the World Through Human Rights; Observation At the Intersection; Institutionalized Organizations; Chapters to Come; Hand in Hand in Nicaragua; 2 Inhabiting Nicaraguan Civil Society at the Intersection; One Pope, Two Tarmacs
Sandino and Somoza: Revolutionary and DictatorSandino Reincarnated in the Sandinista Front; Civil Society Puts the Regime on Shaky Ground; Organizing the People; Substituting Civil Society for the State; The End of Revolution, the Continuation of Solidaridad; Civil Society Today; Rehabilitating Segovia's DPOs with Rights; One Vision, One Mission; Intersecting Institutional Logics and Organizational Fields; DPOs on Center Stage; 3 The Problem with Pretty Little Programs; Born from Solidaridad; Bigger and Better in Segovia; The Center of the CRPD; Pretty Little Programs
Recoupling on the Road to SalvationPosters on the Wall; New Posters on the Wall; The Youth Center: A Nice Place or a Violator of Rights?; A New Strategic Plan; Locking the Locals Out; You Need to Fight for Your Right!; Thinking Badly, Dreaming Big; Taking It to the Streets; The Bylaws Bite Back; The Board Gets Back to Basics; Recoupling Civil Society and Solidaridad; 4 Grassroots Members Walking and Rolling Away; Empty Seats; No Quorum, No Question; Organized from the Outside; Manufacturing Strong DPOs; Knowing Laws, Passing Laws, Monitoring Laws; A Meeting Is No Place for Therapy
Two PersonsBuilding Community Through the Defense Committee; True Believers; Doubling Down on Double-Discrimination; Where, What, When, and How Do I Get There?; ODIFOM's Loss, Women's Cooperatives' Gain; It's the Economy, Stupid!; Members Staying Put or Moving Along; 5 Identity Politics as the Continuation of War by Other Means; In, Out, and All Around the Parade; War Hero or Traitor? Wounded or Disabled?; Barriers to Participation; Scars of War; Red Badge of Courage or Scarlet Letter?; Contradictions in the Contra Claim for Rights; We Are All Disabled Now; War Heroes or the Disabled?
Remembrance of Things PastThe Poison Letter of the Law; Oppressed or Suppressed Identities?; 6 Innovation at the Crossroads; Law as Reality, Law as Desire; Show Me the Money; Constructing a New Society; From Micro-School to Macro-Change; Rights Through Solidaridad; Bicycles and Bread; Give Me an Opportunity to Work; Jobs, Jobs, Jobs for Everyone!; Together at Last: Service and Advocacy; Law and Spirit; Bricolage and Barriers to Expansion; We Tried to Make Rights a Reality, but All We Got Was This Lousy T-shirt; 7 The CRPD's Civilizing Mission; Civic Participation and the Body Politic
Summary Investigates the tensions caused by the CRDP as grassroots disability associations attempt to address their local members' needs
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes From Disabled Body to Disabled Body Politic
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 03, 2019)
Subject Human rights.
People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Nicaragua
Civil society -- Nicaragua
Human Rights
Civil society
Human rights
People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Nicaragua
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1108575870
9781108677783
1108677789
9781108575874