Disability, Liberation and Development

By Peter Coleridge

ISBN: 9780855981952

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Disability, Liberation and Development

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Synopsis
Disabled people are marginalized in every country of the world both North and South. By probing these prejudices and studying cases where they have been overcome this book provides an insight into the processes of liberation and empowerment.
Table of Contents
A note on language
Acknowledgements

Part 1: Introduction
Why this book?
Setting out the issues:
an interview with B.Venkatesh

Part 2: The issues
The experience of disability
The politics of disability: what is at stake?
Disability and development: the basics
Towards social action
Language and numbers

Part 3: Case studies
Zanzibar: starting from scratch on CBR and Social action
Zimbawe: forming a disability movement
India: social action in a highly complex society
Jordan and the occupied territories: community action with disabled children in refugee camps
Lebanon: rebuilding civic consciousness

Part 4: Conclusions
Disability and liberation

Notes
Appendix: some organisations dealing with disability and development
Suggestions for further reading
Index

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