This comprehensive ground-breaking southern African-centred
collection spans the breadth of disability research and practice.
Reputable and emerging scholars, together with disability advocates
adopt a critical and interdisciplinary stance to prove, challenge
and shift commonly held social understanding of disability in
traditional discourses, frontiers and practices in prominent areas
such as inter/national development, disability studies, education,
culture, health, religion, gender, sports, tourism, ICT, theatre,
media , housing and legislation. This handbook provides a body of
interdisciplinary analyses suitable for the development of
disability studies in southern Africa. Through drawing upon and
introducing resources from several disciplines, theoretical
perspectives and personal narratives from disability activists, it
reflects on disability and sustainable development in southern
Africa. It also addresses a clear need to bring together
interdisciplinary perspectives and narratives on disability and
sustainable development in ways that do not undermine disability
politics advanced by disabled people across the world. The handbook
further acknowledges and builds upon the huge body of literature
that understands the social, cultural, educational, psychological,
economic, historical and political facets of the exclusion of
disabled people. The handbook covers the following broad themes: *
Disability inclusion, ICT and sustainable development * Access to
education, from early childhood development up to higher education
* Disability, employment, entrepreneurship and community-based
rehabilitation * Religion, gender and parenthood * Tourism, sports
and accessibility * Compelling narratives from disability activists
on societal attitudes toward disability, media advocacy, accessible
housing and social exclusion. Thus, this much-awaited handbook
provides students, academics, practitioners, development partners,
policy makers and activists with an authoritative framework for
critical thinking and debates that inform policy and practice in
incomparable ways, with the view to promoting inclusive and
sustainable development.
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