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This book breaks new ground in disability scholarship, southern theory and development practice by bringing together new research and practice in disability and development in the Global South.
This book was originally published as a special issue of
Third World Quarterly.
Sommario
1. Southern Bodies and Disability: re-thinking concepts
Raewyn Connell 2. Human Rights and the Global South: the case of disability
Helen Meekosha and Karen Soldatic 3. Embodiment and Emotion in Sierra Leone
Maria Berghs 4. Fostering Deaf People's Empowerment: the Cameroonian deaf community and epistemological equity
Goedele AM de Clerck 5. Care, Disability and HIV in Africa: diverging or interconnected concepts and practices?
Ruth Evans and Agnes Atim 6. Geodisability Knowledge Production and International Norms: a Sri Lankan case study
Fiona Kumari Campbell 7. The Lived Experience of Families Living with Spinal Cord Disability in Northeast Thailand
Julie A King and Mark J King 8. Disability and Poverty: the need for a more nuanced understanding of implications for development policy and practice
Nora Groce, Maria Kett, Raymond Lang and Jean-Francois Trani 9. Including Deaf Children in Primary Schools in Bushenyi, Uganda: a community-based initiative
Susie Miles, Lorraine Wapling and Julia Beart 10. Disability and Humanitarianism in Refugee Camps: the case for a travelling supranational disability praxis
Mansha Mirza
Info autore
Helen Meekosha is an Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Helen has opened up the field in the gendered relations of disability. Her work has broken new ground in setting disability in a context of neoliberalism and globalization, arguing the case for an examination of global North/ South relations that affect the incidence and production of disability.
Karen Soldatic is a Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Karen is an international disability scholar who has extensive experience within the field of international development in conflict zones. Her work brings together this rich field work engagement to theoretically inform conceptual understandings of disability in the Global South.
Riassunto
This book breaks new ground in disability scholarship, southern theory and development practice by bringing together new research and practice in disability and development in the Global South. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
