Andrew Power

Active Citizenship and Disability (eBook, PDF)

Implementing the Personalisation of Support

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an international comparative study of the implementation of disability rights law and policy focused on the emerging principles of self-determination and personalisation. It explores how these principles have been enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and how different jurisdictions have implemented them to enable meaningful engagement and participation by persons with disabilities in society. The philosophy of 'active citizenship' underpinning the Convention - that all citizens should (be able to) actively participate in the community - provides the core focal point of this book, which grounds its analysis in exploring how this goal has been imagined and implemented across a range of countries. The case studies examine how different jurisdictions have reformed disability law and policy and reconfigured how support is administered and funded to ensure maximum choice and independence is accorded to people with disabilities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139848435
• Artikelnr.: 38277583

Autorenporträt

Andrew Power is a Lecturer in Geography and Environment at the University of Southampton in the UK. He previously worked as a Researcher at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, National University of Ireland, Galway, where he undertook the fieldwork for this study. His research interests in the field of disability law include independent living, supported decision making and family caregiver policy. Previous research work has included an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Health Research at the University of Lancaster. At Southampton, he currently researches and teaches across a range of areas including social justice, welfare and rights.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Towards Active Citizenship for People with Disabilities: 1.
Introduction; 2. Supports to persons with disabilities in the context of
international and regional disability law and policy; 3. Towards an
enabling state and revitalising disability support; Part II. Learning from
Comparative Perspectives: 4. Active citizenship and disability in the
United States; 5. Active citizenship and disability in Canada (British
Columbia and Ontario); 6. Active citizenship and disability in the UK
(England and Northern Ireland); 7. Active citizenship and disability in
Sweden; 8. Active citizenship and disability in France; Part III. The
Development of Reform in the Disability Support Sector in Ireland: 9.
Tracing the origins of disability support in Ireland; 10. Towards active
citizenship and disability in Ireland; Part IV. The Journey Ahead for
Independent Living: 11. Options and alternatives for a new support delivery
framework that encourages independence; 12. Conclusion.