Rethinking Disability and Human Rights - Participation, Equality and Citizenship (Hardcover)

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, four 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 Convention on the Rights of People 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. This book will be of interest to all scholars and students working in disability studies, planning, architecture, public health, rehabilitation, social work, and education.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
Release date:	June 2023
First published:	2023
Editors:	Inger Marie Lid • Edvard Steinfeld • Michael Rembis
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-51174-6
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	0-367-51174-6
Barcode:	9780367511746

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