Overview
- Draws together leading local southern disability theorists and northern theorists to highlight discussion, debate, and research on the topic
- Generates new theoretical paradigms through provision of rich, critically engaged chapters Includes narratives and voices providing accessible and relevant vignettes
- Provides an unprecedented focus on disability in rural areas and among indigenous populations
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice (IPSPAP)
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Table of contents (37 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Placing Disability
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Connecting Disability
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Intersectionalities
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About this book
This first-of-its kind volume spans the breadth of disability research and practice specifically focusing on the global South. Established and emerging scholars alongside advocates adopt a critical and interdisciplinary stance to probe, challenge and shift common held social understandings of disability in established discourses, epistemologies and practices, including those in prominent areas such as global health, disability studies and international development. Motivated by decolonizing approaches, contributors carefully weave the lived and embodied experiences of disabled people, families and communities through contextual, cultural, spatial, racial, economic, identity and geopolitical complexities and heterogeneities.
Dispatches from Ghana, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Venezuela among many others spotlight the complex uncertainties of modern geopolitics of coloniality; emergent forms of governance including neoliberal globalization, war and conflicts; the interstices ofgender, race, ethnicity, space and religion; structural barriers to redistribution and realization of rights; and processes of disability representation. This handbook examines in rigorous depth, established practices and discourses in disability including those on development, rights, policies and practices, opening a space for critical debate on hegemonic and often unquestioned terrains. Highlights of the coverage include:- Critical issues in conceptualizing disability across cultures, time and space
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The UNCRPD, disability rights orientations and instrumentalitie· Redistributive systems including budgeting, cash transfer systems and programming.
· Global South–North partnerships: intercultural methodologies in disability research.This much awaited handbook provides students, academics, practitioners and policymakers with an authoritative framework for critical thinking and debate about disability, while pushing theoretical and practical frontiers in unprecedented ways.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Karen Soldatic (PhD) is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow (2016–2019), Institute of Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. She is the Head of Research, Global Disability Watch, and Affiliate Fellow at The Critical Institute, Malta and Centre for Disability Research, Policy and Practice, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Disability in the Global South
Book Subtitle: The Critical Handbook
Editors: Shaun Grech, Karen Soldatic
Series Title: International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42488-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-42486-6Published: 17 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-68083-5Published: 02 October 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-42488-0Published: 08 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2625-6975
Series E-ISSN: 2625-6983
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 613
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Public Health, Quality of Life Research