Women with Disabilities as Agents of Peace, Change and Rights - Experiences from Sri Lanka (Hardcover)

Drawing on rich empirical work emerging from core conflict regions within the island nation of Sri Lanka, this book illustrates the critical role that women with disabilities play in post-armed conflict rebuilding and development. This pathbreaking book shows the critical role that women with disabilities play in post-armed conflict rebuilding and development. Through offering a rare yet important insight into the processes of gendered-disability advocacy activation within the post-conflict environment, it provides a unique counter narrative to the powerful images, symbols and discourses that too frequently perpetuate disabled women's so-called need for paternalistic forms of care. Rather than being the mere recipients of aid and help, the narratives of women with disabilities reveal the generative praxis of social solidarity and cohesion, progressed via their nascent collective practices of gendered-disability advocacy. It will be of interest to academics and students working in the fields of disability studies, gender studies, post-conflict studies, peace studies and social work.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
Release date:	October 2020
First published:	2021
Editors:	Karen Soldatic • Dinesha Samararatne
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	122
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-08524-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Peace studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Disability: social aspects Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social work > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Armed conflict Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Coping with personal problems > Coping with disability Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > General
LSN:	1-138-08524-3
Barcode:	9781138085244

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