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The Disability Rights Movement
In this updated edition, Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames expand their encyclopedic history of the struggle for disability rights in the United States, to include the past ten years of disability rights activism.The book includes a new chapter on the evolving impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the continuing struggle for cross-disability civil and human rights, and the changing perceptions of disability.
The authors provide a probing analysis of such topics as deinstitutionalization, housing, health care, assisted suicide, employment, education, new technologies, disabled veterans, and disability culture.
Based on interviews with over one hundred activists,The Disability Rights Movementtells a complex and compelling story of an ongoing movement that seeks to create an equitable and diverse society, inclusive of people with disabilities.
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Rights enabled : the disability revolution, from the US, to Germany and Japan, to the United Nations
\"Drawing on extensive fieldwork and a variety of original sources, Katharina Heyer examines three case studies--Germany, Japan, and the United Nations--to trace the evolution of a disability rights model from its origins in the U.S. through its adaptations in other democracies to its current formulation in international law. She demonstrates that, although notions of disability, equality, and rights are reinterpreted and contested within various political contexts, ultimately the result may be a more robust and substantive understanding of equality. Rights Enabled is a truly interdisciplinary work, combining sociolegal literature on rights and legal mobilization with a deep cultural and sociopolitical analysis of the concept of disability developed in Disability Studies. Heyer raises important issues for scholarship on comparative rights, the global reach of social movements, and the uses and limitations of rights-based activism. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism
The onslaught of neoliberalism, austerity measures and cuts, impact of climate change, protracted conflicts and ongoing refugee crisis, rise of far right and populist movements have all negatively impacted on disability. Yet, disabled people and their allies are fighting back and we urgently need to understand how, where and what they are doing, what they feel their challenges are and what their future needs will be.
This comprehensive handbook emphasizes the importance of everyday disability activism and how activists across the world bring together a wide range of activism tactics and strategies. It also challenges the activist movements, transnational and emancipatory politics, as well as providing future directions for disability activism.
With contributions from senior and emerging disability activists, academics, students and practitioners from around the globe, this handbook covers the following broad themes:
Contextualising disability activism in global activism
Neoliberalism and austerity in the global North
Rights, embodied resistance and disability activism
Belonging, identity and values: how to create diverse coalitions for rights
Reclaiming social positions, places and spaces
Social media, support and activism
Campus activism in higher education
Inclusive pedagogies, evidence and activist practices
Enabling human rights and policy
Challenges facing disability activism
The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism provides disability activists, students, academics, practitioners, development partners and policy makers with an authoritative framework for disability activism.
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Twenty-Two Cents an Hour
In Twenty-Two Cents an
Hour , Doug Crandell uncovers the harsh
reality of people with disabilities in the United States who are
forced to work in unethical conditions for subminimum wages with
little or no opportunity to advocate for themselves, while wealthy
CEOs grow even wealthier as a direct result.
As recently as 2016, the United States Congress enacted
bipartisan legislation which continued to allow workers with
disabilities to legally be paid far lower than the federal minimum
wage. Drawing on ongoing federal Department of Justice lawsuits,
the horrifying story of Henry's Turkey Farm in Iowa, and more,
Crandell shows the history of the policies that have led to these
unjust outcomes, examines who benefits from this legislation, and
asks important questions about the rise of a disability industrial
complex. Exposing this complex-which is rooted in profit, lobbying,
and playing on the emotions of workers' parents and families, as
well as the public-Crandell challenges readers to reexamine how we
treat some of our most vulnerable fellow citizens. Twenty-Two
Cents an Hour forces the reader to face the reality of this
exploitation, and builds the framework needed for reform.
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Human Rights and Disability Advocacy
The United Nations adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) constituted a paradigm shift in attitudes and approaches to disability rights, marking the first time in law-making history that persons with disabilities participated as civil society representatives and contributed to the drafting of an international treaty. On the way, they brought a new kind of diplomacy forward: empowering nongovernmental stakeholders, including persons with disabilities, within human rights discourse. This landmark treaty provides an opportunity to consider what it means to involve members of a global civil society in UN-level negotiations.Human Rights and Disability Advocacybrings together perspectives from individual representatives of the Disabled People's Organizations (DPOs), nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), indigenous peoples' organizations, states, and national institutions that played leading roles in the Convention's drafting process. The contributors provide vivid and personal accounts of the paths to victory, including stumbling blocks-not all of which were overcome-and offer a unique look into the politics of civil society organizations both \"from within\" and in its interaction with governments. Each essay describes the nonnegotiable key issues for which they advocated; the extent of success in reaching their goals; and insights into the limitations they faced. Through the plurality of voices and insider perspectives,Human Rights and Disability Advocacypresents fresh perspectives on the shift toward a new diplomacy and explores the implication of this model for human rights advocacy more generally.Contributors:Andrew Byrnes, Heidi Forrest, Phillip French, Lex Grandia, Huhana Hickey, Markku Jokinen, Liisa Kauppinen, Mi Yeon Kim, Gerison Lansdown, Connie Laurin-Bowie, Tirza Leibowitz, Don MacKay, Anna MacQuarrie, Ronald C. McCallum AO, Tara J. Melish, Pamela Molina Toledo, Maya Sabatello, Marianne Schulze, Belinda Shaw.
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Quarantined Justice, Compromised Diversity: Barriers to Disability Inclusion in China’s Public Sector Employment
Under the advocacy for diversity and inclusion within Chinese society, the judiciary has become a significant institution for the protection of marginalized groups, especially disabled people. Through proactive power expansion, the Supreme People’s Court has played a crucial role in scrutinizing employment discrimination in the private sector. However, the judiciary has paid less attention to the fact that government agencies failed to consider the value of workplace diversity and maintained ableist standards that preclude many disabled candidates from public sector positions. Due to the intrinsic political embeddedness within Chinese judicial systems, courts tended to adopt a strategy known as “quarantined enforcement” when confronted with discriminatory recruitment clauses issued by government‐tied entities. Social and political factors collaboratively shaped the intersectional marginalization of the disabled community in China. This article attempts to move beyond traditional legislative‐centric approaches and emphasize the judiciary’s role in minimizing the marginalization of disabled people. It argues that eliminating political barriers within the judiciary is crucial for achieving workplace diversity and employment equality.
Journal Article
Co-production with Disabled People during the Pandemic: The Creation of a New Political Discourse that Acknowledges the Role of Human Rights in Policymaking in Wales
The Government of Wales acknowledged the disproportionately negative impact of COVID-19 on disabled people by establishing an enquiry led and controlled by them. The outcome, a report written by disabled people, evidenced the impact of past social and health inequalities, failures in social policy, and concerns about human rights. In response, the Welsh Government established a Disability Rights Taskforce to co-produce a 10-year Disability Rights Action Plan. The Taskforce of policy makers and disabled people is governed by four agreed principles: the social model of disability; the value of disabled people's lived experiences; co-production, and the incorporation of the UNCRDP[1] into Welsh law. This article reflects on the challenges and achievements and wider learning from the Taskforce's work. Keywords: Co-production, disability rights, Wales, pandemic, lived experience
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The Personal is Political – And Then What? Ideology, Representation, and Legitimacy in a Swedish Disability Organisation
Background: Who can or cannot claim to represent other members within the disability rights movement has been discussed for decades, mainly concerning being disabled as an eligibility prerequisite. Aim(s): The aim is to analyse arguments concerning representational claims within a Swedish disability rights organisation (DHR, Disability Human Rights). Method: Every member of DHR was given the opportunity to answer three open-ended questions. Answers were subjected to a qualitative content analysis. Results: Two main dimensions of arguments were found. The ideological dimension legitimises representation through lived experience or a human rights approach. The pragmatic dimension legitimises representation through relational claims or organisational necessities. Further analysis revealed a paradox: When a representative is required to have a body with certain characteristics, other knowledge-related aspects risk devaluation. Conclusion(s): Paradoxically, the organisation has a goal of rendering impairment irrelevant in society, while rendering impairment a main issue when electing representatives. Keywords: Disability rights organisation, elected representative, representation, Sweden
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