Disability, human rights and the limits of humanitarianism

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Label

Disability, human rights and the limits of humanitarianism

Statement of responsibility

edited by Michael Gill and Cathy J. Schlund-Vials ; contributors Maria Berghs [and sixteen others]

Contributor

• Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., 1974-
• Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., 1974-
• Gill, Michael Carl
• Gill, Michael Carl

Editor

• Gill, Michael Carl
• Gill, Michael Carl
• Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., 1974-
• Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., 1974-

Subject

• Humanitarianism
• Human rights
• People with disabilities -- Civil rights
• Sociology of disability

Language

eng

Summary

"Disability studies scholars and activists have long criticized and critiqued so-termed 'charitable' approaches to disability where the capitalization of individual disabled bodies to invoke pity are historically, socially, and politically circumscribed by paternalism. Disabled individuals have long advocated for civil and human rights in various locations throughout the globe, yet contemporary human rights discourses problematically co-opt disabled bodies as 'evidence' of harms done under capitalism, war, and other forms of conflict, while humanitarian non-governmental organizations often use disabled bodies to generate resources for their humanitarian projects. It is the connection between civil rights and human rights, and this concomitant relationship between national and global, which foregrounds this groundbreaking book's contention that disability studies productively challenge such human rights paradigms, which troublingly eschew disability rights in favor of exclusionary humanitarianism. It relocates disability from the margins to the center of academic and activist debates over the vexed relationship between human rights and humanitarianism. These considerations thus productively destabilize able-bodied assumptions that undergird definitions of personhood in civil rights and human rights by highlighting intersections between disability, race, gender ethnicity, and sexuality as a way to interrogate the possibilities (and limitations) of human rights as a politicized regime."--Publisher's description

Cataloging source

MiAaPQ

Dewey number

323.3

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HV1568

LC item number

.D568 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Interdisciplinary Disability Studies