The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism (Routledge International Handbooks)

"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"-- Informació facilitada per l'editor Dedication 8 Contents 10 List of contributors 15 Acknowledgements 29 Part I: Introduction – contextualising disability activism 30 Introducing disability activism • Maria Berghs, Tsitsi Chataika, Kudakwashe Dube & Yahya El-Lahib 32 A virtual roundtable: re/defining disability activism with emerging global South disability activists • Tsitsi Chataika (ed), Samantha Sibanda, Abraham Mateta & Krishna Bahadur Sunar 50 Part II: Neoliberalism and austerity in the global North 68 1 The impact of neoliberal politics on the welfare and survival of chronically ill and disabled people • Mo Stewart 70 2 ‘These days are ours’: young disabled people’s experiences of activism and participation in social movements • Miro Griffiths 86 3 The links between models and theories to social changes as seen and understood by activists and academics: what works? • Joanne Sansome 100 4 Figures: an artist-activist response to austerity • Liz Crow 110 5 As technology giveth, technology taketh away • John Rae 116 Part III: Rights, embodied resistance and disability activism 124 6 Exercising intimate citizenship rights and (re)constructing sexualities: the new place of sexuality in disability activism • Alan Santinele Martino & Margaret Campbell 126 7 ‘I show the life, I hereby express my life’: activism and art in the political debate between social movements and institutions on D/deaf bodies in Italy • Fabrizio Loce-Mandes 139 8 Resisting the work cure: mental health, welfare reform and the movement against psychocompulsion • Denise McKenna, Paula Peters & Rich Moth 157 9 My disability, my ammunition, my asset in advocacy work • Tafadzwa Rugoho 173 Part IV: Belonging, identity and values: diverse coalitions for rights 184 10 Disabled mothers of disabled children: an activism of our children and ourselves • Liz Crow & Wendy Merchant 186 11 Dementia as a disability • Kate Swaffer, Brian LeBlanc & Peter Mittler 200 12 Voices from survivors of forced sterilisations in Japan: Eugenics Protection Law 1948–1996 • Nagase Osamu 211 13 Indigenous Species • Khairani Barokka 219 Part V: Reclaiming social positions, places and spaces 224 14 Disability sport and social activism • Damian Haslett & Brett Smith 226 15 Naples in the hands: activism for aesthetic enjoyment • Ciro Pizzo, Carmela Pacelli & Maria Grazia Gargiulo 238 16 Pissed off!: disability activists fighting for toilet access in the UK • Charlotte Jones, Jen Slater, Sam Cleasby, Gill Kemp, Eleanor Lisney & Sarah Rennie 248 17 Mobility-as-occupation: non-confrontational activism in Trinidad and Tobago • Sylette Henry-Buckmire 261 Part VI: Social media, support and activism 274 18 The tragedy of the hidden lamps: in search of disability rights activists from the global South in the digital era • Nqobani Dube 276 19 ‘With the knife and the cheese in hand!’: a virtual ethnography of the cyber-activist disabled movement in Brazil and its transnational impact • Marco Antonio Gavério, Anahi Guedes de Mello & Pamela Block 288 20 Australia’s treatment of Indigenous prisoners: the continuing nature of human rights violations in West Australian jail cells • Hannah McGlade 303 21 ‘Lchad Poland’ and the fight against inequality: the role of internet advocacy in cases of a rare genetic condition • Anna Chowaniec-Rylke 318 Part VII: Campus activism in higher education 326 22 Beyond random acts of diversity: ableism, academia & institutional sites of resistance • Stephanie J. Cork, Beth Douthirt-Cohen, Kelly M. Hoffman, Paul T. Jaeger & Amanda Strausser 328 23 At the margins of academia – on the outside, looking in: refusing, challenging and dismantling the material and ideological bases of academia • Armineh Soorenian 344 24 Sensitisation: broadening the agenda to ‘include’ persons with disabilities • Pragya Deora 352 25 Rainclamation: how installation art can reclaim space, transform collective suffering into poetic resistance and bring aesthetics to disabled viewers • Erin Davenport 359 Part VIII: Inclusive pedagogies, evidence and activist practices 368 26 Zimbabwean disability activism from a higher education perch: an uncertain present but exciting future • Martin Musengi 370 27 Research as activism?: perspectives of people labelled/with intellectual and developmental disabilities engaged in inclusive research and knowledge co-production • Ann Fudge Schormans, Heather Allan, Donavon O’Neil Allen, Christine Austin, Kareem Elbard, Kevin John Head, Tyler Henderson, Karrissa Horan-LaRoche, Rainbow Hunt, Nathan Gray, Rex Marchi, Donna McCormick, Romeo Dontae Tresean Biggz Pierre & Sean Rowley 383 28 Reinventing activism: evidence-based participatory monitoring as atool for social change 369Marcia Rioux, Paula Campos Pinto, Dagnachew Wakene, Rados Keravica& Jose Viera 398 Part IX: Enabling human rights and policy: Transition: international politics 412 29 Implementation of CRPD in the post-Soviet region: between imitation and authenticity • Egle Sumskiene, Violeta Gevorgieniene & Rasa Geniene 414 30 Swedish disability activism: from welfare to human rights? • Marie Sépulchre & Lars Lindberg 427 31 Gendered disability advocacy: lessons from the Girl Power Programme in Sierra Leone • Emma Frobisher, Willem Elbers & Auma Okwany 441 32 ‘We need not remake the past’: rebuilding the disability movement in Toronto, Canada • Melissa Graham 457 Part X: Conclusion – the coming challenges and future directions 464 33 Causes and effects of claims for rights: why mainstreaming in Africa matters • Kudakwashe Dube 466 34 Unsettling realities and rethinking displacement: transforming settlement services for refugees, migrants and people with intellectual disabilities • Natalie Spagnuolo & Yahya El-Lahib 481 35 Disability futures: activism futures and challenges • Maria Berghs, Tsitsi Chataika, Yahya El-Lahib & Kudakwashe Dube 494 Index 500 "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"-- Informació facilitada per l'editor "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"-- Provided by publisher