Making Rights a Reality? - Disability Rights Activists and Legal Mobilization

Explores how disability activists in the UK and Canada have transformed aspirations into legal claims in their quest for equality.

List of contents

1. Introduction: legal mobilization and accommodating social movements; 2. Rights and political identity in the Canadian disability movement; 3. Disability equality and opportunity in the Supreme Court of Canada; 4. Disability organizations and the diffusion of rights in the United Kingdom; 5. Framing disability equality in the UK courts; 6. Conclusions: litigation, mobilization and social movements.

About the author

Dr Lisa Vanhala currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford. She previously held an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her research has been published in the Journal of European Public Policy, the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Common Law World Review, and Regional and Federal Studies.

Summary

This book explores how disability activists in the UK and Canada have transformed their aspirations into legal claims in their quest for equality. It unpacks shifting conceptualizations of the political identity of disability and delves into the diffusion of disability rights among grassroots organizations and the traditional disability charities.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Vanhala
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.01.2014
• EAN: 9781107616400
• ISBN: 978-1-107-61640-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Cambridge Disability Law and P; Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; Canada, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Canadian, Political activism, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Disability: social aspects, Human rights, civil rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice, Political activism / Political engagement