Disability and Poverty in the Global South : Renegotiating Development in Guatemala.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Terminology -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1 Disability, Poverty and Development: Mapping the Terrain -- International development meets disability: (dis)encounters -- Beyond the rhetoric: disjuncture -- Disability studies 'meets' the global South: on Eurocentric disciplining -- 'Disability and development': cool lingo, but where's it all going? -- This book: objectives, trajectories and approaches -- This book is not … some caveats -- Mapping things out -- 2 Guatemala: Landscapes -- Guatemala: context, space and place -- Historicising: a brief and partial reading -- From colonial to neocolonial -- Disability in Guatemala -- 3 Disability in the Spaces of Poverty: Critical Theoretical Introductions -- We're all poor here! Multifaceted, dynamic, shared poverty -- Defining disability: complex fluid terrains -- Personhood interruptus: embodied experiences, fissures in 'normality' -- God: an affordable painkiller -- Disability is heterogeneous -- Gendered experiences: power, ideology and (re)presentation -- Attitudes: differential, hybrid and hybridising -- 4 Disability and Poverty: Connections and Transitions -- Disability and poverty: not a cycle -- Repositioning a tricky relationship: a fluid dynamic association -- On family impoverishment -- Becoming 'poorer': intersecting poverty dynamics -- Impaired mobility: the price of isolation -- Livelihoods: from fragmentation to destruction -- Brief pause -- 5 Disability and Poverty: Connections and Transitions Part 2 -- Money matters: the financial costs of disability -- Bodies of pain: on health-care barriers -- Education: no panacea -- 6 The Disabled Family: From Survival Struggles to Collective Impoverishment -- Lucha no libre: coping strategies or desperate responses?.

Shifting production patterns: onto the fallow land -- Reduced consumption: tightening the belt below the breadline -- From hard to harder: changing family labour -- It all goes: the trail of asset disposal -- Debt bondage and intergenerational poverty -- Intensifying demands on family: handouts for subsistence -- 7 The Politics of Indifference and the Poverty of Policy -- Social apartheid: on poverty and race in Guatemala -- The organisations the poor know -- The politics of indifference and the poverty of policy -- Disability organisations: the national and international scenario -- Non-disability-specific spaces: more organisational silence -- Communities of poverty and the saving hand of charity -- 8 Final Reflections -- Rights, policies, more rights: can we eat rights? -- Reflecting outwards: the call for a Critical Global Disability Studies -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Drawing from long term ethnographic work and practice in Guatemala, this incisive and interdisciplinary text brings in perspectives from critical disability studies, postcolonial theory and critical development to explore the various interactions and dynamics between disability and extreme poverty in rural areas.

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