The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Citizenship in the Global South

by Leslie Swartz

Book Overview

This handbook questions, debates and subverts commonly held assumptions about disability and citizenship in the global postcolonial context. Discourses of citizenship and human rights, so elemental to strategies for addressing disability-based inequality in wealthier nations, have vastly different ramifications in societies of the Global South, where resources for development are limited, democratic processes may be uncertain, and access to education,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030090523
• ISBN13: 9783030090524
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"