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Disability, human rights and the limits of humanitarianism /

"Disability studies scholars and activists have long criticized and critiqued so-termed 'charitable' approaches to disability where the capitalization of individual disabled bodies to invoke pity are historically, socially, and politically circumscribed by paternalism. Disabled indivi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gill, Michael Carl (Editor ), Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., 1974- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]
Colección:Interdisciplinary disability studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The Promise of Human Rights for Disabled People and the Reality of Neoliberalism / Mark Sherry
  • 2. The New Humanitarianism: Neoliberalism, Poverty and the Creation of Disability / Maria Berghs
  • 3. Media, Disability, and Human Rights / Armineh Soorenian
  • 4. Volunteering as Tribute: Disability, Globalization and The Hunger Games / Anna Mae Duane
  • 5. Structural and Cultural Rights in Australian Disability Employment Policy / Karen R. Fisher
  • 6. Disability in Humanitarian Emergencies in India: Towards an Inclusive Approach / Vanmala Hiranandani
  • 7. Monitoring Disability: The Question of the "Human" in Human Rights Projects / Tanya Titchkosky
  • 8. The Specter of Vulnerability and Disabled Bodies in Protest / Eunjung Kim
  • 9. Persons with Disabilities in International Humanitarian Law
  • Paternalism, Protectionism or Rights? / Janet E. Lord
  • 10. United Nations Policy and the Intersex Community / Ethan Levine
  • 11. HIV/AIDS, Disability and Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa / Lydia Apon Strehlau
  • 12. The Overrepresentation of Black Children in Special Education and the Human Right to Education / Jennifer Bronson
  • 13."Becoming Disabled": Towards the Political Anatomy of the Body / Nirmala Erevelles.