Disability, Liberation and Development
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.
Published: 1993
Pages: 252
eBook: 9780855987053
Paperback: 9780855981952
A note on language | |||
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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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