Brian Watermeyer & Judith McKenzie 
The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Citizenship in the Global South [PDF ebook] 

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.  

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction.- Part I Theorizing Citizenship and Diversity in the Global South.- 2. Surplusisity: Neoliberalism and Disability and Precarity.- 3. World Building, Citizenship, and Disability: The Strange World of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 
Never Let Me Go.- 4. Unlocking Ability: Democracy and Disabled People’s Campaign for Recognition.- 5. Disability and Citizenship in the Global South in a Post-truth Era.- 6. “Can This White Guy Sing the Blues?” Disability, Race and Decolonisation in South African Higher Education.- 7. From “No One Left Behind” to Putting the Last First: Centring the Voices of Disabled People in Resilience Work.- Part II Networks and Contexts.- 8. Sexuality and Citizenship for People with Intellectual Disabilities in Lifelong Family Care: Reflections from a South African Setting.- 9. In and Out of the Mainstream: Disability, Education and Employment in African Contexts.- 10. Access to Education for Children with Severe to Profound Intellectual Disabilityin South Africa: The Potential and Limits of Social Action.- 11. Engaging Disability and Religion in the Global South.- Part III An Inclusive Society.- 12. Digital Citizenship in the Global South: “Cool Stuff for Other People”?.- 13. Challenges in Achieving Universal Access to Transport Services in South African Cities.- 14. Paralympic Sport and Social Justice: Towards a Happy Marriage or Difficult Separation?.- 15. Towards a Dis Human Civil Society.- 16. Disability, Theatre, and Postcoloniality: Reflections on the Politics of Performance.- 17. Working Together: Making Inclusive Development a Reality.- Part IV Marginalized Citizenship and Ecologies of Exclusion.- 18. Bodies (Im)politic: The Experiences of Sexuality of Disabled Women in Zimbabwe.- 19. The Politics of Person-Making: Ethics of Care, Intellectual Impairment Citizenship, and a Reclaiming of Knowledge.- 20. Citizenship and Participation of People With Disabilities in Brazil: Labour and Social Welfare.- 21. Embedding Rights Into Practice: Challenges in Psycho-Legal Assessments of Complainants with Intellectual Disability in Cases of Sexual Abuse in South Africa.- 22. Citizenship and People with Intellectual Disabilities: An International Imperative?.- 23. Disabled People, Hate Crime and Citizenship.- 24. Disability, Migration, and Family Support: The Case of Zimbabwean Asylum Seekers in South Africa.

Om författaren

Brian Watermeyer is Senior Research Officer in the Division of Disability Studies, Department of Health and Rehabilitation sciences, at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. 





Judith Mc Kenzie is Associate Professor in the Division of Disability Studies, Department of Health and Rehabilitation sciences, at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.   





Leslie Swartz is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.