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Transnationalising Disability Studies: Rights, Justice and Impairment

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2014
In this paper we aim to explore the realm of impairment in terms of its politicization under transnational claims for justice. The realm of disability rights and justice has been a central theme in disability analytical inquiry and by disability movement
Karen Soldatic, Shaun Grech
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The Politics of Disability Performativity

Current Anthropology, 2020
Disability is a concept that grows as we think about it, forcing us to adjust our conversations in vocabulary and rhetoric depending on which disability world we inhabit or address.
Devva Kasnitz
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Thinking With Disability Studies

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2014
In this essay, I offer tentative ruminations about the possibilities/challenges of theory and praxis in the field of disability studies. I begin the essay by thinking through my own positionality as a non-disabled woman of color scholar/ally in the field.
Nirmala Erevelles
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Pandemic Lived Experience, Crip Utopias, and Dismodernist Revolutions: For a More‐Than‐Social Model of Disability

Social Inclusion, 2023
At its height, the Covid‐19 pandemic dispersed across society a perception of bodyminded contingency that ushered in modes of “building community” that were unimaginable in pre‐pandemic times, alongside an intensification of health and social ...
Arianna Introna
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Disability and political participation in Ghana: an alternative perspective

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2014
Persons with disabilities (PWDs) rarely attain political positions in Ghana. This relates more to the scenario of PWDs as candidates contesting for political position than the mere participation as voters. The core objective of this article is to examine
Emmanuel Sackey
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Disabling the Body Politic

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2021
The metaphor of the 'body politic' is an apparently optimistic one, as it is supposed to signal the relationality and connectedness of all members of the whole. This paper argues that the metaphor does not deliver on its potential because it associates illness and disability with lack of quality of life.
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Dedifferentiation and people with intellectual disabilities in the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme: Bringing research, politics and policy together

, 2020
Background: Dedifferentiated policy treats adults with intellectual disabilities as part of the larger group of people with disabilities. The implications of the dedifferentiated National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) for adults with intellectual ...
C. Bigby
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‘Disabled motherhood in an African community’: Towards an African women theology of disability

In die Skriflig, 2018
The politics of culture, motherhood and mothering in some African communities highlight the tensions that exist in the broader feminist theology agenda.
Sinenhlanhla S. Chisale
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Guest Editors' Introduction: Growing Disability Studies: Politics of Access, Politics of Collaboration

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2014
This is an introduction and has no abstract.
Michelle Jarman, Alison Kafer
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A very capitalist condition: a history and politics of disability [PDF]

, 2017
Chris Grover
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