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Rights enabled : the disability revolution, from the US, to Germany and Japan, to the United Nations / Katharina Heyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heyer, Katharina.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- People with disabilities--Civil rights.
- People with disabilities.
- People with disabilities--Political activity.
- Sociology of disability.
- Equality.
- Human rights.
- Political participation.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2015]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- "Drawing on extensive fieldwork and a variety of original sources, Katharina Heyer examines three case studies--Germany, Japan, and the United Nations--to trace the evolution of a disability rights model from its origins in the U.S. through its adaptations in other democracies to its current formulation in international law. She demonstrates that, although notions of disability, equality, and rights are reinterpreted and contested within various political contexts, ultimately the result may be a more robust and substantive understanding of equality. Rights Enabled is a truly interdisciplinary work, combining sociolegal literature on rights and legal mobilization with a deep cultural and sociopolitical analysis of the concept of disability developed in Disability Studies. Heyer raises important issues for scholarship on comparative rights, the global reach of social movements, and the uses and limitations of rights-based activism. "-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Disability Revolution: From Welfare to Rights 15
- Chapter 2 Disability Rights as Civil Rights: The ADA and the Limits of Analogy 51
- Chapter 3 "Dreamland USA": American Disability Rights Travel to Germany 85
- Chapter 4 From Welfare to Rights: Disability Law and Activism in Japan 123
- Chapter 5 Disability Rights as Human Rights 167.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-237) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472072477
- 9780472052479
- 9780472120826
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.5946811
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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