Progress from the margins human rights and disability internationalism since the 1960s Paul van Trigt

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trigt, Paul van, 1980- author.

Series:

Columbia studies in international and global history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol (2007 March 30).

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol.

People with disabilities--Legal status, laws, etc.

People with disabilities.

People with disabilities--Civil rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Columbia University Press (Lightning Source), 2026.

New York Columbia University Press [2026]

Summary:

Progress from the Margins is an international history of the struggle for recognition of disability rights at the global level. Paul van Trigt chronicles how people with disabilities and their allies developed their own understanding of human rights, from the emergence of disability activism in the late 1960s through the negotiation of the convention. He traces the unexpected paths by which international recognition of disability human rights emerged, showing that it is not a story of linear progress but rather one of a decades-long series of discontinuous advances. Challenging accounts that criticize the limited scope of human rights in recent decades, van Trigt highlights how disabled people and their allies transformed human rights law by emphasizing social dimensions. He foregrounds the agency of disabled people from the Global South as well as the Global North, demonstrating how they shaped their own human rights. A groundbreaking account of disability internationalism, Progress from the Margins also reflects on the prospects for a world that embraces disability

Contents:

Jerusalem 1968 : Blocking "Promiscuous Scandinavia"

Belgrade 1975 : "Equality . . . Not Materialized in Full"

Singapore 1981 : "Nothing About Us, Without All of Us"

New York 1987 : A Neoliberal Utopia of Development

Vienna 1993 : "Adopt or Adjust Legislation to Assure Access"

Mexico City 2002: Taken by Surprise

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-204) and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed March 14, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Trigt, Paul van, 1980- Progress from the margins

ISBN:

9780231562973

0231562977

9780231564908

0231564902

OCLC:

1552152452

Publisher Number:

CIPO000304055

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license