ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|11 pages

Introduction

Doing it our way: disability, activism and advocacy

part I|1 pages

Remembering and remembrance

chapter 2|20 pages

‘We’re being treated as second-class citizens’

Community, family and learning disability activists campaigning for dignity in death

chapter 3|17 pages

‘Madhouse’

Performance artists with learning disabilities sharing the history of institutions

chapter 5|14 pages

Advocacy from within

part II|11 pages

Movement organizations and leadership

chapter 6|14 pages

Action makes a difference

Creating inclusive spaces through advocacy work in Sāmoa

chapter 7|17 pages

Kamalawathie

Gender, disability and leadership in Sri Lanka

chapter 8|12 pages

Research, advocacy and activism

A necessary interaction?

chapter 9|16 pages

Peer education

A platform for sexuality rights advocacy for women with intellectual disabilities

part III|1 pages

Activism across multiple identities

chapter 10|16 pages

Our lives, our story

The journey of the voiceless towards advocacy in Nepal

chapter 13|10 pages

Queer-crip.blog

A virtual ethnographic comparison of social media movement-building techniques used by queer and disabled activists

part IV|1 pages

Agitating the state

chapter 14|16 pages

Disability masked avengers

The Bolshy Divas

chapter 15|11 pages

Advocacy in Jordan

A paradigm shift from the medical model to the rights-based approach

chapter 16|12 pages

Transforming disability law and policy in Peru

The role of civil society

chapter 17|15 pages

The fight to be steadfast

Bolivian disability activists

part V|1 pages

Working transnationally

chapter 18|18 pages

Advocating for independent living in the European Union

Where there’s money, there’s a way?

chapter 19|15 pages

Towards an Afrocentric disability activism

Opportunities and challenges of transnationalizing disability advocacy in Africa

chapter 20|17 pages

Troubling activisms

Canada and transnational disability activism

chapter 21|13 pages

When academia meets activism

The place of research in struggles for disability rights

chapter 22|7 pages

Conclusion