This first-of-its kind volume spans the breadth of disability research
and practice specifically focusing on the global South. Established
and emerging scholars alongside advocates adopt a critical and
interdisciplinary stance to probe, challenge and shift common held
social understandings of disability in established discourses,
epistemologies and practices, including those in prominent areas such
as global health, disability studies and international development.
Motivated by decolonizing approaches, contributors carefully weave the
lived and embodied experiences of disabled people, families and
communities through contextual, cultural, spatial, racial, economic,
identity and geopolitical complexities and heterogeneities.
Dispatches from Ghana, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Venezuela among
many others spotlight the complex uncertainties of modern geopolitics
of coloniality; emergent forms of governance including neoliberal
globalization, war and conflicts; the interstices of gender, race,
ethnicity, space and religion; structural barriers to redistribution
and realization of rights; and processes of disability representation.
This handbook examines in rigorous depth, established practices and
discourses in disability including those on development, rights,
policies and practices, opening a space for critical debate on
hegemonic and often unquestioned terrains. Highlights of the coverage
include: Critical issues in conceptualizing disability
across cultures, time and space The challenges of
disability models, metrics and statistics Disability,
poverty and livelihoods in urban and rural contexts
Disability interstices with migration, race, ethnicity, gender and
sexuality Disability, religion and customary societies
and practice · The UNCRPD, disability rights orientations and
instrumentalitie · Redistributive systems including budgeting, cash
transfer systems and programming. · Global South–North
partnerships: intercultural methodologies in disability research. This
much awaited handbook provides students, academics, practitioners and
policymakers with an authoritative framework for critical thinking and
debate about disability, while pushing theoretical and practical
frontiers in unprecedented ways.
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The Critical Handbook
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9783319424880
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Springer Nature
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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