Disability, Liberation, and Development

Disability, Liberation, and Development
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Publisher : Oxfam
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 0855981954
ISBN-13 : 9780855981952
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Disability, Liberation, and Development by : Peter Coleridge

Disabled people are marginalized in every country of the world both North and South. By probing these prejudices and studying cases where they have been overcome this book provides an insight into the processes of liberation and empowerment.

Earth, Animal, and Disability Liberation

Earth, Animal, and Disability Liberation
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1636670830
ISBN-13 : 9781636670836
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Earth, Animal, and Disability Liberation by : Anthony J. Nocella II

Exile and Pride

Exile and Pride
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 148
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ISBN-10 : 9780822374879
ISBN-13 : 0822374870
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Exile and Pride by : Eli Clare

First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled genderqueer activist/writer established him as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability and permanently changed the landscape of disability politics and queer liberation. With a poet's devotion to truth and an activist's demand for justice, Clare deftly unspools the multiple histories from which our ever-evolving sense of self unfolds. His essays weave together memoir, history, and political thinking to explore meanings and experiences of home: home as place, community, bodies, identity, and activism. Here readers will find an intersectional framework for understanding how we actually live with the daily hydraulics of oppression, power, and resistance. At the root of Clare's exploration of environmental destruction and capitalism, sexuality and institutional violence, gender and the body politic, is a call for social justice movements that are truly accessible to everyone. With heart and hammer, Exile and Pride pries open a window onto a world where our whole selves, in all their complexity, can be realized, loved, and embraced.

Capitalism and Disability

Capitalism and Disability
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Publisher : Haymarket Books
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 9781608467167
ISBN-13 : 1608467163
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Capitalism and Disability by : Marta Russell

Spread out over many years and many different publications, the late author and activist Marta Russell wrote a number of groundbreaking and insightful essays on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism. In this volume, Russell’s various essays are brought together in one place in order to provide a useful and expansive resource to those interested in better understanding the ways in which the modern phenomenon of disability is shaped by capitalist economic and social relations. The essays range in analysis from the theoretical to the topical, including but not limited to: the emergence of disability as a “human category” rooted in the rise of industrial capitalism and the transformation of the conditions of work, family, and society corresponding thereto; a critique of the shortcomings of a purely “civil rights approach” to addressing the persistence of disability oppression in the economic sphere, with a particular focus on the legacy of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; an examination of the changing position of disabled people within the overall system of capitalist production utilizing the Marxist economic concepts of the reserve army of the unemployed, the labor theory of value, and the exploitation of wage-labor; the effects of neoliberal capitalist policies on the living conditions and social position of disabled people as it pertains to welfare, income assistance, health care, and other social security programs; imperialism and war as a factor in the further oppression and immiseration of disabled people within the United States and globally; and the need to build unity against the divisive tendencies which hide the common economic interest shared between disabled people and the often highly-exploited direct care workers who provide services to the former.

The Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Disability and Development

The Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Disability and Development
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 432
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ISBN-10 : 9780195305012
ISBN-13 : 0195305019
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Disability and Development by : Jacob A. Burack

We know considerably more about persons with intellectual disability than we did even a decade ago. Seeking to improve and increase upon this knowledge, this book provides a map to continue sophisticated and precise research, to inspire professionals involved with intellectual disability, and to better the lives of persons affected by it.

Nothing About Us Without Us

Nothing About Us Without Us
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 215
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ISBN-10 : 9780520925441
ISBN-13 : 0520925440
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Nothing About Us Without Us by : James I. Charlton

James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities. Nothing About Us Without Us is the first book in the literature on disability to provide a theoretical overview of disability oppression that shows its similarities to, and differences from, racism, sexism, and colonialism. Charlton's analysis is illuminated by interviews he conducted over a ten-year period with disability rights activists throughout the Third World, Europe, and the United States. Charlton finds an antidote for dependency and powerlessness in the resistance to disability oppression that is emerging worldwide. His interviews contain striking stories of self-reliance and empowerment evoking the new consciousness of disability rights activists. As a latecomer among the world's liberation movements, the disability rights movement will gain visibility and momentum from Charlton's elucidation of its history and its political philosophy of self-determination, which is captured in the title of his book. Nothing About Us Without Us expresses the conviction of people with disabilities that they know what is best for them. Charlton's combination of personal involvement and theoretical awareness assures greater understanding of the disability rights movement.

Disability and Social Change

Disability and Social Change
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Publisher : HSRC Press
Total Pages : 432
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ISBN-10 : 0796921377
ISBN-13 : 9780796921376
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Disability and Social Change by : Brian Watermeyer

This powerful volume represents the broadest engagement with disability issues in South Africa yet. Themes include theoretical approaches to, and representations of, disability; governmental and civil society responses to disability issues; aspects of education as these pertain to the oppression/liberation of disabled people; social security for disabled people; the complex politics permeating service provision relationships; and a consideration of disability in relation to human spaces - physical, economic and philosophical. Firmly located within the social model of disability, this collection resonates powerfully with contemporary thinking and research in the disability field and sets a new benchmark for cutting-edge debates in a transforming South Africa.

Disability, Liberation, and Development

Disability, Liberation, and Development
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Publisher : Oxfam Publications
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 0855981946
ISBN-13 : 9780855981945
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Disability, Liberation, and Development by : Peter Coleridge

The situation of disabled people provides a microcosm of the whole development debate and process. Disabled people are oppressed and marginalised in every country of the world, both North and South. Their lives are constrained by social attitudes which stem from fear and prejudice. By probing these prejudices and studying cases where they have been overcome, we gain an insight into the processes of liberation and empowerment that lie at the heart of any development message.

Disability, Equality, and Human Rights

Disability, Equality, and Human Rights
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Publisher : Oxfam Publications
Total Pages : 342
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ISBN-10 : 9780855984854
ISBN-13 : 0855984856
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Disability, Equality, and Human Rights by : Alison Harris

This book's basic premise is that disabled people themselves know best what their needs are and that they should be involved in the planning and delivery of relief and development initiatives. The most effective support that agencies can offer is to empower them to claim their basic human rights and their civil and legal rights. The text is based on the experience of Oxfam staff working before, during and after the crisis in Kosovo; but its principles and practical training materials can be applied far more widely. Case studies from Africa and Asia arising from the work of Action and Disability and Development (ADD) show how the values of equality, empowerment and autonomy that are promoted by the social model of disability are universal in their relevance. It suggests practical materials particularly useful to trainers working in geographically isolated areas without access to sophisticated equipment. Most activities and exercises can be adapted for use in groups of people with a wide range of impairments and educational levels.

Decarcerating Disability

Decarcerating Disability
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : 9781452963501
ISBN-13 : 1452963509
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Decarcerating Disability by : Liat Ben-Moshe

This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the largest exodus of people from carceral facilities in the twentieth century: the closure of disability institutions and psychiatric hospitals. Decarcerating Disability provides a much-needed corrective, combining a genealogy of deinstitutionalization with critiques of the current prison system. Liat Ben-Moshe provides groundbreaking case studies that show how abolition is not an unattainable goal but rather a reality, and how it plays out in different arenas of incarceration—antipsychiatry, the field of intellectual disabilities, and the fight against the prison-industrial complex. Ben-Moshe discusses a range of topics, including why deinstitutionalization is often wrongly blamed for the rise in incarceration; who resists decarceration and deinstitutionalization, and the coalitions opposing such resistance; and how understanding deinstitutionalization as a form of residential integration makes visible intersections with racial desegregation. By connecting deinstitutionalization with prison abolition, Decarcerating Disability also illuminates some of the limitations of disability rights and inclusion discourses, as well as tactics such as litigation, in securing freedom. Decarcerating Disability’s rich analysis of lived experience, history, and culture helps to chart a way out of a failing system of incarceration.