Disability in the global south : the critical handbook /: the critical handbook. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Shaun Grech, Karen Soldatic, editors.
• Editors: Grech, Shaun; Soldatic, Karen
• Contents: Disability and Development: Critical Connections, Gaps and Contradictions -- Disability and Global Health -- Disability Studies: Developments in Anthropology -- Counting Disabled People: Historical Perspectives and the Challenges of Disability Statistics -- The Place of Disability -- From 'Sensing Disability' to Seselelame: Non-dualistic Activist Orientations in Twenty-First-Century Accra -- Playing Disability, Performing Gender: Militarised Masculinity and Disability Theatre in the Sri Lankan War and Its Aftermath -- Religion After the Medical Miracle: Recovering "Disability" as Religious Analytic of Social Suffering -- Livelihoods and Disability: The Complexities of Work in the Global South -- Begging and Disability: A Paradigmatic Way to Earn One's Living -- Don't Forget Us, We Are Here Too! Listening to Disabled Children and Their Families Living in Poverty -- Questioning Human Rights: The Case of Education for Children and Youth with Disabilities in Ethiopia -- Reflexive Re-storying of Inclusive Education: Evidence from India and South Africa -- Disability and Poverty: Complex Interactions and Critical Reframings -- Disablism, Deprivation and Selfhood: Imagining the Subjective Nature of Oppression in Worlds of Poverty -- Race, Ethnicity and Disability: Charting Complex and Intersectional Terrains -- Disabled People in Conflicts and Wars -- Disability and Forced Migration: Intersections and Critical Debates -- The Fluid Connections and Uncertain Spaces of Women with Disabilities: Making Links Across and Beyond the Global South -- Violence Against Disabled Women in the Global South: Working Locally, Acting Globally -- 'Locked in Space': Rurality and the Politics of Location -- Disability and HIV: Critical Intersections -- Social Protection, Chronic Poverty and Disability: Applying an Intersectionality Perspective -- The Hauntings of Slavery: Colonialism and the Disabled Body in the Caribbean -- From Colonialism to Postcolonialism and Contemporary Empire -- Global Financialisation and Disability: Can Disability Budgeting be an Effective Response in the South? -- Global Institutions and Their Engagement with Disability Mainstreaming in the South: Development and (Dis)Connections -- A Local Critique of Global Mental Health -- Community-Based Rehabilitation and Disability-Inclusive Development: On a Winding Path to an Uncertain Destination -- Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction: Vulnerability and Resilience Discourses, Policies and Practices -- Critical Silences: Disability, Networked Technologies and the Global South -- Whose Knowledge, Whose Voice? Power, Agency and Resistance in Disability Studies for the Global South -- Revising and Using the Social Model in the Global South: A Venezuelan Exploration -- Disability Research in the Global South: Working from a Local Approach -- Australian Indigenous People with Disability: Ethics and Standpoint Theory -- Global South-North Partnerships: Intercultural Methodologies in Disability Research -- Embodying Disability in the Global South: Exploring Emotional Geographies of Research and of Disabled People's Lives in Guyana.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxviii, 613 pages)
• Subjects: 362.40947; Social sciences; People with disabilities -- Developing countries; People with disabilities -- Services for -- Developing countries; People with disabilities -- Rehabilitation -- Developing countries; Sociology of disability -- Developing countries; Rehabilitation -- Developing countries; Globalization -- Social aspects -- Developing countries; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare; Globalization -- Social aspects; People with disabilities; People with disabilities -- Rehabilitation; People with disabilities -- Services for; Rehabilitation; Sociology of disability; Medical -- Public Health; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Public health & preventive medicine; Social issues & processes; Quality of Life -- Research; Developing countries; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319424880; 3319424882
• Related ISBNs: 9783319424866; 3319424866
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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