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

by Lisa Vanhala

Book Overview

Making Rights a Reality? explores the way in which disability activists in the United Kingdom 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 the role of a rights discourse in these dynamics. In doing so, it delves into the diffusion of disability rights among grassroots organizations and the traditional disability charities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107616409
• ISBN13: 9781107616400
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"