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Rethinking Disability and Human Rights: Participation, Equality and Citizenship

Rethinking Disability and Human Rights: Participation, Equality and Citizenship

Author: Inger Marie Lid; Edvard Steinfeld; Michael Rembis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367511746
Published In: June 2023
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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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.

Introduction - Rethinking citizenship and disability

Inger Marie Lid, Edvard Steinfeld and Michael Rembis

Part One

Chapter One - Exploring the relationship between Citizenship and Universal Design

Inger Marie Lid

Chapter Two - Veterans from Life: Rehabilitation as Compensation

Halvor Hanisch

Interlude One - Life is possible

Stig Langvad

Chapter Three – Rethinking Utopia. Posthumanism, Transhumanism, and Disability

Jan Grue

Chapter Four - Mad Citizenship

Michael Rembis

Part Two

Chapter Five - Conditions for religious citizenship for people with intellectual disabilities: Cases from Norway and Slovakia

Dmitry Lukash and Anna Chalachanová

Interlude Two – "Symbiotic citizenship" and a struggle for the right of life as frames for interpreting the 40-day disability protest in the Polish Parliament

Natalia Pamula and Magda Szarota

Chapter Six - The Space of Accessibility and Universal Design

Edvard Steinfeld

Chapter Seven – Enabling equal citizenship: Responses from civil society

Ingunn Moser and Inger Marie Lid

Interlude Three - Global Disability Summit: How to realize "nothing without us"

Gagan Chhabra

Chapter Eight - Universal Human Rights and Universal Design for People with Disabilities: Challenges and Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa

Korydon Smith

Postscript – Dialogue between Rosemarie Garland-Tomson and Inger Marie Lid

Rosemarie Garland-Tomson and Inger Marie Lid