ABSTRACT
The onslaught of neoliberalism, austerity measures and cuts, impact of climate change, protracted conflicts and ongoing refugee crisis, rise of far right and populist movements have all negatively impacted on disability. Yet, disabled people and their allies are fighting back and we urgently need to understand how, where and what they are doing, what they feel their challenges are and what their future needs will be.
This comprehensive handbook emphasizes the importance of everyday disability activism and how activists across the world bring together a wide range of activism tactics and strategies. It also challenges the activist movements, transnational and emancipatory politics, as well as providing future directions for disability activism.
With contributions from senior and emerging disability activists, academics, students and practitioners from around the globe, this handbook covers the following broad themes:
• Contextualising disability activism in global activism
• Neoliberalism and austerity in the global North
• Rights, embodied resistance and disability activism
• Belonging, identity and values: how to create diverse coalitions for rights
• Reclaiming social positions, places and spaces
• Social media, support and activism
• Campus activism in higher education
• Inclusive pedagogies, evidence and activist practices
• Enabling human rights and policy
• Challenges facing disability activism
The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism provides disability activists, students, academics, practitioners, development partners and policy makers with an authoritative framework for disability activism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|38 pages
Introduction – contextualising disability activism
chapter |17 pages
A Virtual Roundtable
part II|56 pages
Neoliberalism and austerity in the global North
chapter 2|14 pages
‘These Days are Ours’
chapter 3|10 pages
The Links Between Models and Theories to Social Changes as Seen and Understood by Activists and Academics
part III|60 pages
Rights, embodied resistance and disability activism
chapter 6|13 pages
Exercising Intimate Citizenship Rights and (Re)constructing Sexualities
chapter 7|18 pages
‘I Show the Life, I Hereby Express my Life’
chapter 8|16 pages
Resisting the Work Cure
part IV|40 pages
Belonging, identity and values
chapter 12|8 pages
Voices From Survivors of Forced Sterilisations in Japan
part V|50 pages
Reclaiming social positions, places and spaces
part VI|52 pages
Social media, support and activism
chapter 18|12 pages
The Tragedy of the Hidden Lamps
chapter 19|15 pages
‘With the Knife and the Cheese in Hand!’
chapter 20|15 pages
Australia’s Treatment of Indigenous Prisoners
chapter 21|8 pages
‘Lchad Poland’ and the Fight Against Inequality
part VII|42 pages
Campus activism in higher education
chapter 22|16 pages
Beyond Random Acts of Diversity
chapter 23|8 pages
At the Margins of Academia – on the Outside, Looking in
chapter 25|9 pages
Rainclamation
part VIII|44 pages
Inclusive pedagogies, evidence and activist practices
chapter 26|13 pages
Zimbabwean Disability Activism From a Higher Education Perch
chapter 27|15 pages
Research as Activism?
chapter 28|13 pages
Reinventing Activism
part IX|52 pages
Enabling human rights and policy
chapter 29|13 pages
Implementation of CRPD in the Post-Soviet Region
chapter 31|16 pages
Gendered Disability Advocacy
chapter 32|7 pages
‘We Need not Remake the Past’
part X|36 pages
Conclusion – the coming challenges and future directions