ABSTRACT
Disability is defined by hierarchy. Regardless of culture or context, persons with disabilities are almost always pushed to the bottom of the social hierarchy.
With the advent of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006), disability human rights seemingly provided a path forward for tearing down ableist social hierarchies and ensuring that all persons with disabilities everywhere were treated equally. Despite important progress, the disability human rights project not only remains incomplete, but has often created new hierarchies among persons with disabilities themselves or across the human rights it promotes. Certain groups of persons with disabilities have gained new voices while others remain silenced and certain rights are prioritized over others depending on what states, international organizations, or advocates want rather than what those on the ground need most.
This volume was inspired both by the continued need to expose human rights violations against persons with disabilities, but to also explore the nuanced role that hierarchies play in the spread, implementation, and protection of disability human rights. The enjoyment of human rights is not equal nor is the recognition of specific individuals and groups’ rights. In order to change this situation, inequalities across the disability human rights movement must be explored.
Divided into five parts:
- Who counts as disabled?
- Political, social, and cultural context
- Which rights on top, whose rights on bottom?
- Pushed to the periphery in the disability rights movement
- Representations of disability
and comprised of 34 newly-written chapters including case-studies from the Anglophone Caribbean, Bangladesh, Bosnia-Herzegovina, China, Ghana, Haiti, Hungary, India, Israel, Kenya, Latin America, Poland, Russia, Scotland, Serbia and South Africa, and other countries, this book will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, sociology, human rights law and social policy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|123 pages
Who counts as disabled?
chapter 2|15 pages
Creating a STORM
chapter 7|11 pages
Mental health service users claiming their right to self-advocacy
part II|203 pages
Political, social, and cultural context
chapter 11|25 pages
On the margins while in the midst of conflict
chapter 12|21 pages
Personal assistance services in Poland during the period of higher education
chapter 13|28 pages
Theories of social dominance in group-based hierarchies
chapter 15|28 pages
On the hierarchy of human rights of persons with disabilities and higher education
chapter 17|17 pages
Disability and displacement
part III|96 pages
Which rights on top, whose rights on the bottom?
chapter 21|16 pages
Including the voices of persons with intellectual disabilities in academia
chapter 23|15 pages
Inclusive education through a neoliberal lens
part IV|77 pages
Pushed to the periphery of the disability rights movement
chapter 24|6 pages
Excluded from the disability rights debate
chapter 25|17 pages
Hierarchies of leadership within disability justice movements
chapter 26|15 pages
Zhenshchiny. Invalidnost'. Feminizm./Women. Disability. Feminism.
chapter 27|18 pages
Two sides of the same coin
chapter 28|19 pages
Between the disability movement and the feminist movement
part V|125 pages
Representations of disability