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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gill, Michael Carl.

Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., 1974-

Series:

Interdisciplinary Disability Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities--Civil rights.

People with disabilities.

Sociology of disability.

Human rights.

Humanitarianism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Contemporary human rights discourses problematically co-opt disabled bodies as 'evidence' of harms done under capitalism, war, and other forms of conflict, while humanitarian non-governmental organizations often use disabled bodies to generate resources for their humanitarian projects. It is the connection between civil rights and human rights, and the concomitant relationship between national and global, which foregrounds this book's contention that disability studies productively challenge such human rights paradigms, which troublingly eschew disability rights in favor of exclusionary humani

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Protesting "The Hardest Hit": Disability Activism and the Limits of Human Rights and Humanitarianism; 1 The Promise of Human Rights for Disabled People and the Reality of Neoliberalism; 2 The New Humanitarianism: Neoliberalism, Poverty and the Creation of Disability; 3 Media, Disability, and Human Rights; 4 Volunteering as Tribute: Disability, Globalization and The Hunger Games; 5 Structural and Cultural Rights in Australian Disability Employment Policy

6 Disability in Humanitarian Emergencies in India: Towards an Inclusive Approach7 Monitoring Disability: The Question of the 'Human' in Human Rights Projects; 8 The Specter of Vulnerability and Disabled Bodies in Protest; 9 Persons with Disabilities in International Humanitarian Law - Paternalism, Protectionism or Rights?; 10 United Nations Policy and the Intersex Community; 11 HIV/AIDS, Disability and Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa; 12 The Overrepresentation of Black Children in Special Education and the Human Right to Education

13 "Becoming Disabled": Towards the Political Anatomy of the BodyIndex

Notes:

"First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-57740-2

1-317-15013-9

1-317-15012-0

1-4724-2092-6

9781315577401

OCLC:

877978047