Rethinking Disability and Human Rights: Participation, Equality and Citizenship (Interdisciplinary Disability Studies)

Synopsis

This book examines the role of disability in the right to political and social participation, an act of citizenship that many disabled people do not enjoy.The disability rights movement does not accept the use of disability to create limits on citizenship, which poses challenges for contemporary societies that will become ever greater as the science and technology of enhancing human abilities evolves. Comprised of eight chapters, three interludes, and a postscript written by leading scholars and disability rights activists, the book explores citizenship for people with disabilities from an interdisciplinary perspective using the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as a point of departure and the concept of universal design as a strategy for actualizing full citizenship for all. Situating disability in its historical and cultural contexts, the authors offer directions for rethinking citizenship, including implications for access to the built environment, information and communication systems, education, work, community life and politics. This book will be of interest to all scholars and students working in disability studies, planning, architecture, public health, rehabilitation, social work, and education.

Copyright:

2023

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781000900286

Related ISBNs:

9780367511746, 9781003052708, 9780367511562

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

06/16/23

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Inger Marie Lid, Edward Steinfeld and Michael Rembis

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Disability-Related, Social Studies, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Inger Marie Lid

Edited by:

Edvard Steinfeld

Edited by:

Michael Rembis