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Global Perspectives on Disability Activism and Advocacy

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Global Perspectives on Disability Activism and Advocacy

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Global Perspectives on Disability Activism and Advocacy book

Our Way

Global Perspectives on Disability Activism and Advocacy

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Global Perspectives on Disability Activism and Advocacy book

Our Way
ByKaren Soldatic, Kelley Johnson
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2019
eBook Published 11 September 2019
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351237499
Pages 358
eBook ISBN 9781351237499
Subjects Health and Social Care, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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Soldatic, K., & Johnson, K. (2019). Global Perspectives on Disability Activism and Advocacy: Our Way (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351237499

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|11 pages

Introduction

Doing it our way: disability, activism and advocacy
ByKaren Soldatic, Kelley Johnson

part 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
ByNigel Ingham

chapter 3|17 pages

‘Madhouse’

Performance artists with learning disabilities sharing the history of institutions
BySue Ledger, Jan Walmsley

chapter 4|14 pages

The importance of disabled people being seen on our screens

BySarah Barton

chapter 5|14 pages

Advocacy from within

ByMoira Rayner

part Part II|11 pages

Movement organizations and leadership

chapter 6|14 pages

Action makes a difference

Creating inclusive spaces through advocacy work in Sāmoa
ByJuliann Anesi

chapter 7|17 pages

Kamalawathie

Gender, disability and leadership in Sri Lanka
ByNiroshini Kandasamy, Karen Soldatic

chapter 8|12 pages

Research, advocacy and activism

A necessary interaction?
ByKelley Johnson, Rob Hopkins, Gerard Minogue

chapter 9|16 pages

Peer education

A platform for sexuality rights advocacy for women with intellectual disabilities
ByPatsie Frawley, Amie O’Shea

part 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
ByPratima Gurung

chapter 11|18 pages

Sex trafficking, activism and disability

ByMark Sherry

chapter 12|15 pages

The onset of austerity in the United Kingdom and start of a disability activism

ByEleanor Lisney

chapter 13|10 pages

Queer-crip.blog

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

part Part IV|1 pages

Agitating the state

chapter 14|16 pages

Disability masked avengers

The Bolshy Divas
ByKatie Ellis

chapter 15|11 pages

Advocacy in Jordan

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

chapter 16|12 pages

Transforming disability law and policy in Peru

The role of civil society
ByAlberto Vásquez Encalada

chapter 17|15 pages

The fight to be steadfast

Bolivian disability activists
ByMarianne Hedlund

part 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?
ByInes Bulic Cojocariu

chapter 19|15 pages

Towards an Afrocentric disability activism

Opportunities and challenges of transnationalizing disability advocacy in Africa
ByPrivilege Haang’andu

chapter 20|17 pages

Troubling activisms

Canada and transnational disability activism
ByDeborah Stienstra

chapter 21|13 pages

When academia meets activism

The place of research in struggles for disability rights
ByPaula Campos Pinto

chapter 22|7 pages

Conclusion

ByKelley Johnson, Karen Soldatic
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