Disability in Africa - Inclusion, Care, and the Ethics of Humanity (Hardcover)

Exploring issues of disability culture, activism, and policy across the African continent, this volume argues for the recognition of African disability studies as an important and emerging interdisciplinary field. While the disability rights movement of recent decades has a rich and well-documented history, it is a history mostly focused on the Global North. Disability in Africa presents an interdisciplinary approach to cultural, health, and policy challenges that disability issues have raised throughout the African continent. The volume draws on the achievements of disability studies while acknowledging the demands and challenges of particular African contexts. The authors bring diverse methodological approaches and expertise to bear on these issues, ranging from anthropology and bioethics to special education and community rehabilitation. Essays consider indigenously African definitions of disability as well as exploring disability at the intersection of poverty, geography, and globalized biopolitics. Contributors analyze the difficulties of implementing disability policy across the continent while also being mindful of successful approaches taken at local, national, and international levels. Disability in Africa thus charts new avenues for disability studies research in and about Africa.

General

Imprint:	University of Rochester Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Release date:	June 2021
Editors:	Nic Hamel (Author) • Toyin Falola (Series Editor)
Contributors:	Maria Berghs • Anna Lee Carothers • Fikru Gebrekidan • Mary Nyangweso • Kathryn Geurts • Ernest Ernest Cole (Customer) • Kolawole Olaiya • Saloua Ben Zahra
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	452
ISBN-13:	978-1-58046-971-5
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-58046-971-X
Barcode:	9781580469715

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