Disability in Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Inclusion, Care, and the Ethics of Humanity
Redaktion: Hamel, Nic; Falola, Toyin

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring issues of disability culture, activism, and policy across the African continent, this volume argues for the recognition of African disability studies as an important and emerging interdisciplinary field.

While the disability rights movement of recent decades has a rich and well-documented history, it is a history mostly focused on the Global North. Disability in Africa presents an interdisciplinary approach to cultural, health, and policy challenges that disability issues have raised throughout the African continent. The volume draws on the achievements of disability studies while acknowledging the demands and challenges of particular African contexts. The authors bring diverse methodological approaches and expertise to bear on these issues, ranging from anthropology and bioethics to special education and community rehabilitation. Essays consider indigenously African definitions of disability as well as exploring disability at the intersection of poverty, geography, and globalized biopolitics. Contributors analyze the difficulties of implementing disability policy across the continent while also being mindful of successful approaches taken at local, national, and international levels. Disability in Africa thus charts new avenues for disability studies research in and about Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787449909
• Artikelnr.: 62148650

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: INTRODUCING THE FIELD Africanizing Disability: Toward an
Articulation of African Disability Studies -Toyin Falola and Nic Hamel
Disability Studies: A Disciplinary Overview - Toyin Falola, Anna Lee
Carothers, and Nic Hamel PART TWO: THEORIZING DISABILITY IN AFRICA An
African Ethics of Social Well-Being: Understanding Disability and Public
Health - Maria Berghs Rethinking African Disability Studies: From the
Cultural-Deficit Model to a Socio-Economic Perspective - Fikru Negash
Gebrekidan Disability in Africa: A Cultural/Religious Perspective - Mary
Nyangweso Disability and Cultural Meaning Making in Africa Kathryn - Linn
Guerts PART THREE: REPRESENTATION AND CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS Disfiguration,
Trauma, and Disability: Reclaiming the Body and the Case against
Prosthetics - Ernest Cole Paradoxical Dramaturgies: Disability, Ritual, and
Resistance in the Plays of Wole Soyinka - Nic Hamel Demonizing Madness:
Mental Disorders as Deus Ex Machina in Nollywood Movies - Kolawole Olaiya
Masculinity, Disability, and Empire in J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the
Barbarians - Saloua Ben Zahra PART FOUR: EDUCATION, COMMUNITY, AND
CAREGIVING Addressing Poverty and Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Fostering Inclusive Education of Children with Disabilities - Serges Djoyou
Kamga Inclusive Education and Cultural Relevance in East Africa - Angi
Stone-MacDonald and Ozden H. Pinar-Irmak Youth, Women, and Disability in
Africa: Economic Empowerment and Community Strategies to Leave No One
Behind - Ntombekhaya Tshabalala, Elizabeth Ladner Babi Agbettor, and
Theresa Lorenzo Caregiving and Support in African Context: A Personal
Perspective Frances Emily Owusu-Ansah PART FIVE: ACTIVISM AND BARRIERS TO
INCLUSION So that the Stew Reaches Everybody: Women's Negotiations of
Leadership and Power in Ghana's DPO's - Denise M. Nepveux Disability
Policy, Movement Activism, and the Non-Enforcement of a Disability Act: The
Case of Ghana - Emmanuel Sackey Students with Disabilities' Lack of
Opportunity for Sport and Recreational Activities: The Case of South
African Universities - Desire Chiwandire Rehabilitation and the Realization
of Disability Rights - Serges Djoyou Kamga Conclusion: A Research Agenda
for African Disability Studies Anna Lee Carothers and Toyin Falola Notes on
Contributors Selected Bibliography Index