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Author Grech, Shaun, author.

Title Disability and poverty in the global South : renegotiating development in Guatemala / Shaun Grech
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series Palgrave Studies in Disability and International Development
Palgrave studies in disability and international development.
Contents 1. Disability, Poverty And Development: Mapping The Terrain -- 2. Guatemala: Context, History And Disability Landscapes -- 4. Disability And Poverty: Connections And Transitions -- 5. Disability And Povery: More Connections -- 6. Disabled Families: Survival Struggles And Collective Impoverishment -- 7. Un/Transforming Structures: The Institutional Framework -- 8. Final Reflections
Summary "The author provides unprecedented critical, interdisciplinary explorations of the complex dynamics and intersectionalities operating between disability and poverty in rural areas, an assumed relationship that is too often misunderstood. Reporting on long term ethnographic work in Guatemala and prioritising the voices, knowledge and narratives of disabled people and their families, Grech offers an incisive and refined critical analysis of the various complex barriers and interactions in the disability/poverty/rurality nexus encountered by what Grech calls 'disabled families'. The book opens up discussions on a broad range of themes traversing conceptual, spatial, historical, embodied, spiritual, racial, sexual and gendered terrains among others. It challenges and reframes established, often imposed discourses and practices, and contests issues of (re)presentation, Eurocentrism, and coloniality. Finally, it contributes new and uncharted reflections for further debate, which are indispensable to the emerging disability and development/global South discourse, research and practice"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject People with disabilities -- Guatemala -- Economic conditions
Disabilities -- Economic aspects
Poverty -- Guatemala
Economic development -- Guatemala
Disability: social aspects.
Development economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Developing Countries.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Social conditions
Poverty
People with disabilities -- Economic conditions
Economic history
Economic development
SUBJECT Guatemala -- Social conditions
Guatemala -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057635
Subject Guatemala
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137307989
1137307986
9781137307996
1137307994