Disability and social movements : learning from Australian experiences / Rachel Carling-Jenkins.
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TextSeries: Interdisciplinary disability studiesPublisher: Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 168 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9781472446336
- 147244633X
- 1322434174
- 9781322434179
- People with disabilities -- Australia -- Case studies
- Self-help groups -- Asia -- Case studies
- Social movements -- Australia -- Case studies
- Personnes handicapées -- Australie -- Études de cas
- Groupes d'entraide -- Asie -- Études de cas
- Mouvements sociaux -- Australie -- Études de cas
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare
- People with disabilities
- Self-help groups
- Social movements
- Asia
- Australia
- 362.40994 22
- HV1559 .A85 C37 2014
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Preface; 1 Positioning Disability in Australia; 2 Philosophy and Disability; 3 Theory and Disability; 4 Disability in Australian History; 5 New Social Movements from which Disability can Learn; 6 The Australian Disability Rights Movement(s); 7 In Reflection; References; Index.
This book provides the reader with a ground-breaking understanding of disability and social movements. By describing how disability is philosophically, historically, and theoretically positioned, Carling-Jenkins is able to then examine disability relationally through an evaluation of the contributions of groups engaged in similar human rights struggles. The book locates disability rights as a new social movement and provides an explanation for why disability has been divided rather than united in Australia. Finally, it investigates whether the recent campaign to implement a national disability.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-163) and index.
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