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Disability in Africa: Inclusion, Care, and the Ethics of Humanity

Disability in Africa: Inclusion, Care, and the Ethics of Humanity

Berghs, Maria
Hamel, Nic
Falola, Toyin

Hardcover

Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, Book 91

Health GeneralAfrican HistoryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 158046971X
ISBN13: 9781580469715
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: Jun 15 2021
Pages: 452
Weight: 1.95
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Exploring issues of disability culture, activism, and policy across the African continent, this volume argues for the recognition of African disability studies as an important and emerging interdisciplinary field.

While the disability rights movement of recent decades has a rich and well-documented history, it is a history mostly focused on the Global North. Disability in Africa presents an interdisciplinary approach to cultural, health, and policy challenges that disability issues have raised throughout the African continent. The volume draws on the achievements of disability studies while acknowledging the demands and challenges of particular African contexts. The authors bring diverse methodological approaches and expertise to bear on these issues, ranging from anthropology and bioethics to special education and community rehabilitation. Essays consider indigenously African definitions of disability as well as exploring disability at the intersection of poverty, geography, and globalized biopolitics. Contributors analyze the difficulties of implementing disability policy across the continent while also being mindful of successful approaches taken at local, national, and international levels. Disability in Africa thus charts new avenues for disability studies research in and about Africa.

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