Rethinking Disability and Human Rights (eBook, ePUB)

Participation, Equality and Citizenship
Redaktion: Lid, Inger Marie; Rembis, Michael; Steinfeld, Edward

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the role of disability in the right to political and social participation, an act of citizenship that many disabled people do not enjoy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000900286
• Artikelnr.: 67880014

Autorenporträt

Inger Marie Lid is a Professor of Public Health and Rehabilitation at VID Specialized University. Her research interests include ethics, citizenship, universal design accessibility, and Human Rights. Lid has authored and edited many books, chapters and articles. Recent publications include "The significance of relations. Rethinking autonomy in a disability perspective" in Lived Citizenship for Persons in Vulnerable Life Situations. Theories and Practices (Scandinavian University Press). She is currently engaged in research on inclusion in higher education. Edvard Steinfeld, Arch. D., is a SUNY Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access at the School of Architecture, University at Buffalo, State University of New York. His research interests include accessibility, universal design, and design for aging. He is currently engaged in research and public education on design for gender diversity Michael Rembis is the Director of the Center for Disability Studies and an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). Rembis has authored or edited many books, articles, and book chapters. He is currently completing a book entitled, Writing Mad Lives - in the Age of the Asylum. He is the coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Disability History.

Inhaltsangabe

0.Introduction - Rethinking citizenship and disability. Part One.
1.Exploring the relationship between Citizenship and Universal Design.
2.Veterans from Life: Rehabilitation as Compensation. Interlude One - Life
is possible. 3.Rethinking Utopia. Posthumanism, Transhumanism, and
Disability. 4.Mad Citizenship. Part Two. 5.Conditions for religious
citizenship for people with intellectual disabilities: Cases from Norway
and Slovakia. Interlude Two - "Symbiotic citizenship" and a struggle for
the right of life as frames for interpreting the 40-day disability protest
in the Polish Parliament. 6.The Space of Accessibility and Universal
Design. 7.Enabling equal citizenship: Responses from civil society.
Interlude Three - Global Disability Summit: How to realize "nothing without
us". 8.Universal Human Rights and Universal Design for People with
Disabilities: Challenges and Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa. Postscript -
Dialogue between Rosemarie Garland-Tomson and Inger Marie Lid.