Human Rights and the Global South: The case of disability
This article seeks to examine the politics of human rights and disability in light of the recent United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (UNCRPD), which has been central to the struggle for recognition of disabled people. Northern discourses of disability rights have stro...
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| author | Soldatic, Karen Meekosha, H. |
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| description | This article seeks to examine the politics of human rights and disability in light of the recent United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (UNCRPD), which has been central to the struggle for recognition of disabled people. Northern discourses of disability rights have strongly influenced the UNCRPD. We argue that many of the everyday experiences of disabled people in the global South lie outside the reach of human rights instruments. So we ask what, if anything, can these instruments contribute to the struggle for disability justice in the South? While Northern discourses promote an examination of disabled bodies in social dynamics, we argue that the politics of impairment in the global South must understand social dynamics in bodies. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-349002017-09-13T16:09:21Z Human Rights and the Global South: The case of disability Soldatic, Karen Meekosha, H. This article seeks to examine the politics of human rights and disability in light of the recent United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (UNCRPD), which has been central to the struggle for recognition of disabled people. Northern discourses of disability rights have strongly influenced the UNCRPD. We argue that many of the everyday experiences of disabled people in the global South lie outside the reach of human rights instruments. So we ask what, if anything, can these instruments contribute to the struggle for disability justice in the South? While Northern discourses promote an examination of disabled bodies in social dynamics, we argue that the politics of impairment in the global South must understand social dynamics in bodies. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34900 10.1080/01436597.2011.614800 Carfax restricted |
| spellingShingle | Soldatic, Karen Meekosha, H. Human Rights and the Global South: The case of disability |
| title | Human Rights and the Global South: The case of disability |
| title_full | Human Rights and the Global South: The case of disability |
| title_fullStr | Human Rights and the Global South: The case of disability |
| title_full_unstemmed | Human Rights and the Global South: The case of disability |
| title_short | Human Rights and the Global South: The case of disability |
| title_sort | human rights and the global south: the case of disability |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34900 |