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Global Perspectives on Disability Activism and Advocacy
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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
part Part I|1 pages
Remembering and remembrance
chapter 2|20 pages
‘We’re being treated as second-class citizens’
chapter 3|17 pages
‘Madhouse’
part Part II|11 pages
Movement organizations and leadership
chapter 6|14 pages
Action makes a difference
chapter 7|17 pages
Kamalawathie
chapter 8|12 pages
Research, advocacy and activism
chapter 9|16 pages
Peer education
part Part III|1 pages
Activism across multiple identities
chapter 10|16 pages
Our lives, our story
chapter 12|15 pages
The onset of austerity in the United Kingdom and start of a disability activism
chapter 13|10 pages
Queer-crip.blog
part Part IV|1 pages
Agitating the state
chapter 15|11 pages
Advocacy in Jordan
chapter 16|12 pages
Transforming disability law and policy in Peru
part Part V|1 pages
Working transnationally