TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carling-Jenkins,Rachel
TI  - Disability and social movements: learning from Australian experiences 
T2  - Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
SN  - 9781472446336
AV  - HV1559 .A85 C37 2014 
U1  - 362.40994 22
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Farnham, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate Publishing Ltd
KW  - People with disabilities
KW  - Australia
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Self-help groups
KW  - Asia
KW  - Social movements
KW  - Personnes handicapées
KW  - Australie
KW  - Études de cas
KW  - Groupes d'entraide
KW  - Asie
KW  - Mouvements sociaux
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Social Security
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social Services & Welfare
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-163) and index; 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
N2  - 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
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