Disability, human rights and the limits of humanitarianism

Disability, human rights and the limits of humanitarianism / edited by Michael Gill, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials.

"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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Other Authors: Gill, Michael Carl (Editor), Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., 1974- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]
Series:Interdisciplinary disability studies.
Subjects:
People with disabilities > Civil rights.
Sociology of disability.
Human rights.
Humanitarianism.
Electronic books.
e-books.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
Human rights
Humanitarianism
People with disabilities > Civil rights
Sociology of disability
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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