Disability in Africa : Inclusion, Care, and the Ethics of Humanity /

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"While the disability rights movement of recent decades has a rich and well-documented history, it is a history mostly focused on the Global North. Disability in Africa presents an interdisciplinary approach to cultural, health, and policy challenges that disability issues have raised throughou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Hamel, Nic (Autor, Editor ), Falola, Toyin (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sociology of disability.
People with disabilities > Social conditions.
People with disabilities > Africa > Social conditions.
Sociology of disability > Africa.
Africa.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part One: Introducing the field
  • Africanizing Disability: Toward an Articulation of African Disability Studies / Toyin Falola and Nic Hamel
  • Disability Studies: A Disciplinary Overview / Toyin Falola, Anna Lee Carothers, and Nic Hamel
  • Part Two: Theorizing disability in Africa
  • An African Ethics of Social Well-Being: Understanding Disability and Public Health / Maria Berghs
  • Rethinking African Disability Studies: From the Cultural-Deficit Model to a Socio-Economic Perspective / Fikru Negash Gebrekidan
  • Disability in Africa: A Cultural/Religious Perspective / Mary Nyangweso
  • Disability and Cultural Meaning-Making in Africa / Kathryn Linn Guerts
  • Part Three: Representation and Cultural Expressions
  • Disfiguration, Trauma, and Disability: Reclaiming the Body and the Case Against Prosthetics / Ernest Cole
  • Paradoxical Dramaturgies: Disability, Ritual, and Resistance in the Plays of Wole Soyinka / Nic Hamel
  • Demonizing Madness: Mental Disorders as Deus Ex Machina in Nollywood Movies / Kolawole Olaiya
  • Masculinity, Disability, and Empire in J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians / Saloua Ben Zahra
  • Part Four: Education, Community, and Caregiving
  • Addressing Poverty and Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Fostering Inclusive Education of Children with Disabilities / Serges Djoyou Kamga
  • Inclusive Education and Cultural Relevance in East Africa / Angi Stone-MacDonald and Ozden H. Pinar-Irmak
  • Youth, Women, and Disability Economic Empowerment in Africa: Community Strategies to Leave No One Behind / Ntombekhaya Tshabalala, Elizabeth Ladner Babi Agbettor, and Theresa Lorenzo
  • Caregiving and Support in African Context: A Personal Perspective / Frances Emily Owusu-Ansah
  • Part Five: Activism and Barriers to Inclusion
  • So that the Stew Reaches Everybody: Women's Negotiations of Leadership and Power in Ghana's Disabled People's Organizations / Denise M. Nepveux
  • Disability Policy, Movement Activism, and the Non-Enforcement of a Disability Act: The Case of Ghana / Emmanuel Sackey
  • Students with Disabilities' Lack of Opportunity for Sport and Recreational Activities: The Case of South African Universities / Desire Chiwandire
  • Rehabilitation and the Realization of Disability Rights / Serges Djoyou Kamga
  • Conclusion: A Research Agenda for African Disability Studies / Anna Lee Carothers and Toyin Falola.

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