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Politicising Polio - Disability, Civil Society and Civic Agency in Sierra Leone (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Politicising Polio - Disability, Civil Society and Civic Agency in Sierra Leone (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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This book examines disability in post-war Sierra Leone. Its
protagonists are polio-disabled people living in the nation's
capital of Freetown, organizing themselves as best as they can in a
state without welfare. There is little concrete support for people
with disabilities in a country where the government is struggling
with the competing requirements of the international community,
demanding - in exchange for its support - good standards of
democracy and the maintenance of a free market economy. To what
extent is the Human Rights framework of the disability movement
effective in protecting the polio-disabled and what are the
limitations of this framework? Diana Szanto's detailed ethnography
reveals, through many real-life examples, the vulnerability of
disabled people living in the intersections of poverty, informality
and disability activism. At the same time, it also tells about the
many ways the polio-disabled community is transforming
vulnerability into strength.
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