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Rethinking Disability and Human Rights: Participation, Equality and Citizenship

Rethinking Disability and Human Rights: Participation, Equality and Citizenship

Lid, Inger Marie
Steinfeld, Edward
Rembis, Michael

Paperback

Series: Interdisciplinary Disability Studies

General LawGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0367511568
ISBN13: 9780367511562
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 29 2024
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book examines the role of disability in the right to political and social participation, an act of citizenship that many disabled people do not enjoy.

The disability rights movement does not accept the use of disability to create limits on citizenship, which poses challenges for contemporary societies that will become ever greater as the science and technology of enhancing human abilities evolves. Comprised of eight chapters, three interludes, and a postscript written by leading scholars and disability rights activists, the book explores citizenship for people with disabilities from an interdisciplinary perspective using the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as a point of departure and the concept of universal design as a strategy for actualizing full citizenship for all. Situating disability in its historical and cultural contexts, the authors offer directions for rethinking citizenship, including implications for access to the built environment, information and communication systems, education, work, community life and politics.

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