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1 online resource (xv, 342 pages) |
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Interdisciplinary disability studies |
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Interdisciplinary disability studies.
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Introduction: doing it our way: disability, activism and advocacy -- Part I Remembering and remembrance -- 'We're being treated as second-class citizens': community, family and learning disability activists campaigning for dignity in death -- 'Madhouse': performance artists with learning disabilities sharing the history of institutions -- The importance of disabled people being seen on our screens -- Advocacy from within -- Part II Movement organizations and leadership -- Action makes a difference: creating inclusive spaces through advocacy work in Sāmoa -- Kamalawathie: gender, disability and leadership in Sri Lanka -- Research, advocacy and activism: a necessary interaction? -- Peer education: a platform for sexuality rights advocacy for women with intellectual disabilities -- Part III Activism across multiple identities -- Our lives, our story: the journey of the voiceless towards advocacy in Nepal -- Sex trafficking, activism and disability -- The onset of austerity in the United Kingdom and start of a disability activism |
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Queer-crip.blog: a virtual ethnographic comparison of social media movement-building techniques used by queer and disabled activists -- Part IV Agitating the state -- Disability masked avengers: the Bolshy divas -- Advocacy in Jordan: a paradigm shfit from the medical model to the rights-based approach -- Transforming disability law and policy in Peru: the role of civil society -- The fight to be steadfast: Bolivian disability activists -- Part V Working transnationally -- Advocating for independent living in the European Union: where there's money, there's a way? -- Towards an Afrocentric disability activism: opportunities and challenges of transnationalizing disability advocacy in Africa -- Troubling activisms: Canada and transnational disability activism -- When academia meets activism: the place of research in struggles for disability rights -- Conclusion -- Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Karen Soldatic is an Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences & Institute Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. She was awarded a Fogarty Foundation Excellence in Education Fellowship for 2006-2009, a British Academy International Fellowship in 2012, a fellowship at The Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin University (2011-2012), where she remains an Adjunct Fellow, and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship (2016-2019). Her research on global welfare regimes builds on her 20 years of experience as an international, national and state-based senior policy analyst, researcher and practitioner. She obtained her PhD (Distinction) in 2010 from the University of Western Australia. Kelley Johnson holds honorary professorial appointments at Deakin University and University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia. She is an internationally known scholar who has been a researcher and advocate with disabled people for more than 20 years in Australia and internationally. Her recent previously held positions include Director, Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW, and Director of the Norah Fry Research Centre in Bristol, UK. Kelley has an ongoing commitment to inclusive research which involves disabled people undertaking research on issues that are important in their lives. Her research interests include deinstitutionalization, community participation of disabled people, sexuality and relationships, and rights with a particular focus on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities |
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| Subject |
People with disabilities -- Political activity
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People with disabilities -- Government policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Handicapped.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
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People with disabilities -- Government policy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Soldatic, Karen, editor.
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Johnson, Kelley, 1947- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781351237499 |
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1351237497 |
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1351237470 |
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9781351237482 |
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1351237489 |
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9781351237468 |
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1351237462 |
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9781351237475 |
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