Making rights a reality? : disability rights activists and legal mobilization /

"Making Rights a Reality? explores the way in which disability activists in the United Kingdom and Canada have transformed their aspirations into legal claims in their quest for equality. It unpacks shifting conceptualizations of the political identity of disability and the role of a rights dis...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vanhala, Lisa, 1979-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, ©2011.
Colección:Cambridge disability, law and policy series.
Temas:
People with disabilities > Legal status, laws, etc. > Great Britain > History.
People with disabilities > Great Britain > History.
People with disabilities > Legal status, laws, etc. > Canada > History.
People with disabilities > Canada > History.
Personnes handicapées > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Personnes handicapées > Canada > Histoire.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
People with disabilities.
People with disabilities > Legal status, laws, etc.
Canada.
Great Britain.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: legal mobilization and accommodating social movements
  • Rights and political identity in the Canadian disability movement
  • Disability equality and opportunity in the Supreme Court of Canada
  • Disability organizations and the diffusion of rights in the United Kingdom
  • Framing disability equality in the UK courts
  • Conclusions: litigation, mobilization and social movements.

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