ABSTRACT
This chapter on methodology presents an overview of how empirical decisions were made, how the sample of informants was chosen and individual advocates located, and which methods were applied when conducting interviews, their later coding and evaluation. An inductive approach of grounded theory (as per Kathy Charmaz) has been applied when analysing the interviews that were conducted with individual disability rights advocates. The interview questions were only semi-structured so as to grant space for what was yet unknown to the interviewer in the answers provided. English as the language of interaction and access to certain venues for interaction are critically scrutinised. The sample of 20 interviewees then is presented and disaggregated demographically as well as by their respective country of origin; geographic and linguistic origin are conceived as being secondary to the geopolitical location of the disability-related work that these advocates engage in. The analysis of relevant documents, legal texts, and their translations are granted attention as well so as to put what interviewed informants said into a perspective of international written material.
