ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter recalls the main purpose and features of the book. It outlines the importance of the right to participate in cultural life as an essential dimension of the human rights model of disability provided for in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). It then presents the core tenets of the socio-legal analysis conducted and the novel facets of the book. It posits that the analysis of the barriers and facilitators experienced by persons with disabilities in the exercise of their right to participate in cultural life can support the implementation of Article 30 CRPD. The book aims to advance an understanding of what hampers and what facilitates cultural participation of persons with disabilities in order to allow States Parties to the CRPD to go beyond ‘narratives’ that focus on fragmentary good practices and that are often underpinned by remnants of medicalised views of disability and effect real change.
