Disability in local and global worlds / edited by Benedicte Ingstad, Susan Reynolds Whyte.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ingstad, Benedicte.

Whyte, Susan Reynolds.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities.

People with disabilities--Social conditions.

People with disabilities--Cross-cultural studies.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

ix, 324 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]

Summary:

The lives of many disabled people in Europe and North America have improved over the past two decades through innovative technologies and the efforts of the disability rights movement. These changes have been spreading to other societies around the globe-albeit unevenly. In this collection of essays, leading scholars explore global changes in disability awareness, technology, and policy from the viewpoint of disabled people and their families in a wide range of local contexts. The authors report on ethnographic research in Brazil, Uganda, Botswana, Somalia, Britain, Israel, China, Egypt, India, and Japan. They address the definition of disability, the new eugenics, human rights in local contexts, domestic and state citizenship of disabled people, and issues of identity and belonging. Throughout, their essays question the global from the viewpoint of the local and consider social differences within worlds as well as between them.

Contents:

Introduction: disability connections / Susan Reynolds Whyte and Benedicte Ingstad

Locating embodied identities

The two-week village: the significance of sacred occasions for the deaf community / Hilde Haualand

From "complete" to "impaired" body: female circumcision in Somalia and London / Aud Talle

Reproductively disabled lives: infertility, stigma, and suffering in Egypt and India / Marcia C. Inhorn and Aditya Bharadwaj

The chosen body and the rejection of disability in Israeli society / Meira Weiss

Disability and domestic citizenship: voice, gender, and the making of the subject / Veena Das and Renu Addlakha

Dombá's spirit kidney: transplant medicine and Suyá Indian cosmology / Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Mariana Leal Ferreira

Localizing policy and technology

Genomics, laissez-faire eugenics, and disability / Margaret Lock

Why am I not disabled? Making state subjects, making statistics in post-Mao China / Matthew Kohrman

Seeing disability and human rights in the local context: Botswana revisited / Benedicte Ingstad

Moral discourse and old-age disability in Japan / John W. Traphagan

Wheels and new legs: mobilization in Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte and Herbert Muyinda.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520246164

0520246160

9780520246171

0520246179

OCLC:

85162085