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Disability is defined by hierarchy. Regardless of culture or context, persons with disabilities are almost always pushed to the bottom of the social hierarchy.
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0.Introduction.
Part One - Who counts as disabled? 1.Knowing about Human Rights Situation of Burn Survivors Women of Bangladesh. 2.Creating a STORM: Working together to fight stigma and stand up for the rights of people with learning disabilities. 3.Rethinking the capacities of disabled children from the perspective of new materialism. 4.A Journey to Realize Autistic's Right. 5."To tremble, else break": Dismanlting Normative Hierarchies of Chronic Lyme. 6.The Balancing Act: Disability at the intersection of minority ethnicity. 7.Mental health service users claiming their right to self-advocacy: The journey of "Autoekprosopsi". 8.Developing cultural capacity with people who have profound intellectual disabilities. 9.Fighting for the rights of the non-speaking: Typing words to be heard.
Part Two - Political, social, and cultural context. 10.Exploring the now and the prospects of the Disability rights movement in Latin America. 11.On the margins while in the midst of conflict - Adults with intellectual disabilities in Northern Ireland and Bosnia Herzegovina. 12.Personal assistance services in Poland during the period of higher education: Paving the way for independent living. 13.Theories of social dominance in group-based hierarchies: Reflections from the United Nations Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNPRPD) project in Uruguay. 14.Intellectual Disability and Sexuality in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Communities. 15.On the Hierarchy of Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Higher Education: Capturing the fulfilment of the right to accessibility in Indonesia. 16.Violence against women and girls with disabilities in residential institutions in Serbia. 17.Disability and Displacement: Disability Hierarchy Among Refugees and Other Displaced People. 18.Hierarchy, education and persons with disabilities in Anglophone Caribbean.
Part Three - Which rights on top, whose rights on bottom? 19.Hierarchies of impairment and digital disability rights. 20.Communication rights moderated through hierarchies of disability and childhood. 21.Including the voices of persons with intellectual disabilities in academia: Participatory research, education and development in the academic world. 22.Exploring intersectional and ethical feminist perspectives as a possible framework for understanding violence against women with disabilities in Africa with specific reference to forced sterilisation. 23.Inclusive Education through a Neoliberal lens: The hierarchal differences between rural and urban China.
Part Four - Pushed to the periphery in the disability rights movement. 24.Excluded from disability rights debate: the missed voices of people with speech impairments. 25.Hierarchies of Leadership Within Disability Justice Movements: The Voices of individuals with intellectual disabilities are often left unheard. 26.Zhenshchiny. Invalidnost'. Feminizm/Women. Disability . Feminism: Claiming Ourselves Against Ableism. 27.Two sides of the same coin: Domination of the views of the educated in organisations of the blind in Ghana. 28.Between the Disability Movement and the Feminist Movement - Intersectional Mobilizations of Women with Disabilities in Haiti.
Part Five - Representations of Disability. 29.Reflections of Misperceptions. 30.Pirate Island. 31.Disability or Vulnerability: How Courts Distinguish between Physical and Psychosocial Disabilities in an Employment Context. 32.Rooted in Rights - "Women with Disabilities in India and Kenya". 33.Conversation Across Continents on Hierarchies, Human Security and Covid-19. 34.An Invitation to Contemplate: Dialogues about disability hierarchies between South Africa and Scotland. 35.Countering Disability Hierarchy with Cross Disability Solidarity. 36.Intersecting identities.
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Stephen J. Meyers is Director of the Center for Global Studies, at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He is the author of Civilizing Disability Society: The UN Disability Convention socializing grassroots disabled persons organizations in Nicaragua. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Megan McCloskey is Senior Fellow, Disability Inclusive Development Initiative, International Policy Institute, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
Gabor Petri is postdoctoral researcher at the Democracy Institute, Central European University, Budapest and Honorary Lecturer at the Tizard Centre at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
