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Making Rights a Reality? - Disability Rights Activists and Legal Mobilization (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,997
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Making Rights a Reality? - Disability Rights Activists and Legal Mobilization (Hardcover)

Lisa Vanhala

Series: Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series

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Making Rights a Reality? explores the way in which disability activists in the United Kingdom and Canada have transformed their aspirations into legal claims in their quest for equality. It unpacks shifting conceptualizations of the political identity of disability and the role of a rights discourse in these dynamics. In doing so, it delves into the diffusion of disability rights among grassroots organizations and the traditional disability charities. It then shows how the diffusion of this rights model of disability can explain how and why disability activists have deployed legal strategies in pursuit of their goals. The book draws on a wealth of primary sources including court records and campaign documents and encompassing interviews with more than sixty activists and legal experts. While showing that the disability rights movement has had a significant impact on equality jurisprudence in two countries, the book also demonstrates that the act of mobilizing rights can have consequences, both intended and unintended, for social movements themselves.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
Release date: December 2010
First published: 2011
Authors: Lisa Vanhala
Dimensions: 233 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-00087-2
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Disability: social aspects
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General
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LSN: 1-107-00087-4
Barcode: 9781107000872

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