TY - GEN digital ID - 131670649 TI - The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Citizenship in the Global South AU - Watermeyer, Brian AU - McKenzie, Judith AU - Swartz, Leslie PY - 2019 SN - 9783319746753 PB - Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Social change KW - Social policy and particular groups KW - Political systems KW - Economic order KW - Economic policy and planning (general) KW - Economic conditions. Economic development KW - Public administration KW - sociologie KW - personen met een beperking KW - democratie KW - burgerschap KW - economische ontwikkelingen KW - sociale bewegingen KW - kinderen met een beperking KW - klimaatverandering UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131670649 AB - This handbook questions, debates and subverts commonly held assumptions about disability and citizenship in the global postcolonial context. Discourses of citizenship and human rights, so elemental to strategies for addressing disability-based inequality in wealthier nations, have vastly different ramifications in societies of the Global South, where resources for development are limited, democratic processes may be uncertain, and access to education, health, transport and other key services cannot be taken for granted. In a broad range of areas relevant to disability equity and transformation, an eclectic group of contributors critically consider whether, when and how citizenship may be used as a lever of change in circumstances far removed from UN boardrooms in New York or Geneva. Debate is polyvocal, with voices from the South engaging with those from the North, disabled people with nondisabled, and activists and politicians intersecting with researchers and theoreticians. Along the way, accepted wisdoms on a host of issues in disability and international development are enriched and problematized. The volume explores what life for disabled people in low and middle income countries tells us about subjects such as identity and intersectionality, labour and the global market, family life and intimate relationships, migration, climate change, access to the digital world, participation in sport and the performing arts, and much else. . ER -