TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grech,Shaun
AU  - Soldatic,Karen
TI  - Disability in the Global South: The Critical Handbook
T2  - International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice Series
SN  - 9783319424880
AV  - HM706 
U1  - 362.4 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing AG
KW  - Quality of Life_xResearch
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Introduction: Disability in the Global South -- The Book Structure and Parts Explained -- Part I: Placing Disability -- Part II: Connecting Disability -- Part III: Intersectionalities -- Part IV: Interventions -- Part V: Activism and Research Across Cultures -- Part I: Placing Disability -- Chapter 1: Disability and Development: Critical Connections, Gaps and Contradictions -- Introduction -- From Disability Mainstreaming to Disability-Inclusive Development -- Disability and Poverty -- Exclusion from the MDGs and the Need to Include Disability in the SDGs -- The Rights-Based Approach to Development -- In Practice: Where is Disability? -- Disability and Development: (Un)Critical Ways Forward -- Colonialism: The Uncomfortable Roots of 'Development' -- The Sometimes Destructive Nature of 'Development': On Neocolonial Tendencies -- Neo-liberalism and the 'Unproductive' Body -- The Complexity and Heterogeneity of Disability -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Disability and Global Health -- Power, Disability, and Global Health: Some Critical Issues -- Disability and Health as Social Issues -- Ethics of Distribution and Exclusion -- Rethinking Global Health from a Disability Activism Perspective -- Transforming Global Health Through Disability Thinking -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Disability Studies: Developments in Anthropology -- Introduction -- Anthropological Interest in Disability -- Placing Anthropology in Disability Studies -- Positioning Disability Scholarship Within Anthropology -- Moving South … -- The Value of Anthropology -- Ethnographic Writing -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Counting Disabled People: Historical Perspectives and the Challenges of Disability Statistics -- Introduction -- Conceptual Models -- The WHO Track -- The UN Track; ICF: Challenges and Possibilities -- What Kind of Disability Statistics Do We Need? -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5: The Place of Disability -- Introduction -- A Global North Perspective on Disability -- A Supranational Discourse of Disability -- A Global Southern Response -- The Problem -- The Question of Ubuntu -- Religion -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: From 'Sensing Disability' to Seselelame: Non-­dualistic Activist Orientations in Twenty-First-­Century Accra -- Introduction -- Ethnographic Context and Disability Sensibilities in Accra -- Sensory Accra from a Disability Vantage Point -- Movement: Bodily Feeling and Political Action -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Playing Disability, Performing Gender: Militarised Masculinity and Disability Theatre in the Sri Lankan War and Its Aftermath -- Introduction -- Disablement in War -- Making Disability Visible -- Sunera Foundation and Its Butterflies Theatre -- Judging Disability Performance -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Religion After the Medical Miracle: Recovering "Disability" as Religious Analytic of Social Suffering -- Thinking with Disability -- Colonial Mission Brings the Medical Miracle -- Inside My Wound There Is a People -- What Notion of the Good Life Might Yet Come to Bear -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Connecting Disability -- Chapter 9: Livelihoods and Disability: The Complexities of Work in the Global South -- Introduction -- Disability and Livelihood in the Global South -- Financial Capital -- Human Capital -- Health -- Education and Training -- Social Capital -- Physical Capital -- Natural Capital -- Disability-Inclusive Livelihood Assessments in the Global South -- Interventions in the Global South -- Conclusion -- Policy and Programme Imperatives -- Research Imperatives -- A Call for Data -- References; Chapter 10: Begging and Disability: A Paradigmatic Way to Earn One's Living -- Begging: A "Chosen" Means of Life or "Amor Fati"? -- Capitalism, Body Politics, Disability, and Lumpenized Subjectivities -- All Roads Lead to "The Street" -- What Does Begging Tell Us About Our Society? -- By Way of Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Don't Forget Us, We Are Here Too! Listening to Disabled Children and Their Families Living in Poverty -- Introduction -- Disabled Children and Their Parents and Caregivers -- The Nature of Difference: Being a Different Kind of Child -- The Perspectives of Disabled Children and Young People -- Participatory Research with Disabled Children -- Social Relationships -- Problematic Relationships -- Aspirations for Education and Work -- Impairment-Focussed Responses and Solutions -- 8-11-Year-Olds in Rural Sri Lanka -- 12-18-Year-Olds in Rural Sri Lanka -- Expressing Preferences and Opinions -- Having Friends and Playing with Others -- 8-11-Year-Olds in Urban India -- 8-11-Year-Olds in Rural India -- 12-18-Year-Olds in Urban India -- Favourite Things and Activities -- 12-18-Year-Olds in Urban India -- What Is Learned from Talking to Disabled Children Directly? -- Perspectives of Parents and Caregivers of Disabled Children in Orange Farm, South Africa -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Questioning Human Rights: The Case of Education for Children and Youth with Disabilities in Ethiopia -- Introduction -- Access to Education for Children with Disabilities -- Students with Disabilities: Greater Risk of Dropping Out -- Do Disability Rights Matter? -- Politics for the Human Rights-Based Approach to Disability in Africa -- References -- Chapter 13: Reflexive Re-storying of Inclusive Education: Evidence from India and South Africa -- Introduction -- Educational Policies for Children with Disabilities in India and South Africa; India -- South Africa -- Overview of the Two Research Projects -- India -- South Africa -- Key Comparative Findings -- Reflexivity and Grounded Responses to Exclusion and Inclusion -- Global Enactments in Local Spheres: Positioning Teachers as Partners -- Concluding Reflections -- References -- Chapter 14: Disability and Poverty: Complex Interactions and Critical Reframings -- Introduction -- The Disability and Poverty Cycle: Historical Developments, Uncontested Terrains -- Generalising Terrains -- Atheoretical, Ahistorical and Uncritical Analyses -- Measuring and Comparing: Problems with Method and Approach -- Defining Disability and Poverty -- Not All are Disabled, Disproportionately Poor or 'Differentially' Poor -- A Cycle: But Do Poverty and Disability Ever Meet? -- Families: Poverty and Disability Are a Family Affair -- Is the Cycle Ever Interrupted? -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 15: Disablism, Deprivation and Selfhood: Imagining the Subjective Nature of Oppression in Worlds of Poverty -- Introduction -- Psychological Aspects of Disability and Poverty: Careful Perspectives -- Specific Exclusion in a Field of Deprivation -- Going to School: A Litany of Barriers -- The Community and the State: Neglectful Parents -- Disabled and Displaced -- Physical Disability and Mobility in the Developing World: An Incarceration Without Walls -- Assistive Devices: Access and Implications -- Sanitation and Selfhood -- Disability, Reproductive Health and Dignity -- Disability or Death -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Intersectionalities -- Chapter 16: Race, Ethnicity and Disability: Charting Complex and Intersectional Terrains -- Why Intersectionality? -- Why Does Race Matter? -- Whose Bodies Matter? -- Who Do States Protect? -- Excluding the 'Other' -- Access to Services -- Disabled People as Contributors to Their Country's Development; Human Rights -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 17: Disabled People in Conflicts and Wars -- Introduction -- The Changing Nature of Conflicts: Rethinking Medical Humanitarianism -- The Forgotten Disabled -- Indirect Impairments: Contested Sites of Vulnerability -- Long-Term Effects of Conflict -- Physical -- Mental -- Reproductive/Demographic -- Social Structural -- Infrastructural -- Environmental -- Inclusion for Peace -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 18: Disability and Forced Migration: Intersections and Critical Debates -- Introduction -- Framing Forced Migration -- Neo-liberal Globalisation: Dividing and Displacing -- Illegal Bodies -- Label, Categorise, Exclude -- National Security Takes Precedence Over Human Security -- Social Relationships and Networks -- We're All About Rights … Just Not Yours -- Humanitarian Spaces Are Political Non-disabled Spaces -- Do Rights Cross Borders? -- The Unproductive Foreign Body: A National Security Threat -- The Hegemony of the Nation-State Mindset -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 19: The Fluid Connections and Uncertain Spaces of Women with Disabilities: Making Links Across and Beyond the Global South -- Introduction: Managing Essentialisms -- Reconfiguring the Economic Potential of Disabled Embodiment -- Questions of Living and Togetherness Within Precarious Situations -- Marriage and Sexuality -- Disability and Fluid Embodiment -- Conclusions -- Knowledge -- Strategies -- Connections -- References -- Chapter 20: Violence Against Disabled Women in the Global South: Working Locally, Acting Globally -- Introduction -- The Nature of Gendered-Disability Violence -- Conceptualizing Gendered-Disability Violence in the Southern Context -- The Nature of Violence Against Women in the Global South -- Addressing Violence Against Disabled Women: Global Activism in Action; Women With Disabilities Australia: A Model for International Practice
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