| Disability, Human Rights and the Limits of Humanitarianism. Edited by Michael Gill, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials Contributor(s): Gill, Michael (Author), Schlund-Vials, Cathy J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1472420918 ISBN-13: 9781472420916 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Civil Rights - Social Science | People With Disabilities - Political Science | Human Rights |
| Dewey: 323.3 |
| LCCN: 2013045480 |
| Series: Interdisciplinary Disability Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.17 lbs) 252 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Physically Challenged |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Disability studies scholars and activists have long criticized and critiqued so-termed 'charitable' approaches to disability where the capitalization of individual disabled bodies to invoke pity are historically, socially, and politically circumscribed by paternalism. Disabled individuals have long advocated for civil and human rights in various locations throughout the globe, yet contemporary human rights discourses problematically co-opt disabled bodies as 'evidence' of harms done under capitalism, war, and other forms of conflict, while humanitarian non-governmental organizations often use disabled bodies to generate resources for their humanitarian projects. It is the connection between civil rights and human rights, and this concomitant relationship between national and global, which foregrounds this groundbreaking book's contention that disability studies productively challenge such human rights paradigms, which troublingly eschew disability rights in favor of exclusionary humanitarianism. It relocates disability from the margins to the center of academic and activist debates over the vexed relationship between human rights and humanitarianism. These considerations thus productively destabilize able-bodied assumptions that undergird definitions of personhood in civil rights and human rights by highlighting intersections between disability, race, gender ethnicity, and sexuality as a way to interrogate the possibilities (and limitations) of human rights as a politicized regime. |