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UNINA9910370040003321 |
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Autore |
Szántó Diana |
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Titolo |
Politicising Polio : Disability, Civil Society and Civic Agency in Sierra Leone / / by Diana Szántó |
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Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2020.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (327 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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People with disabilities |
Medical anthropology |
Social work |
Economic development |
Disability Studies |
Medical Anthropology |
Social Work |
Development Studies |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Part I: Staging a play (A Critical Ethnography of Disability) -- 1. The Set: Parallel Worlds (Sierra Leone on the World Stage) -- 2. The Cast Onstage and Off: Polio and Beggars on Wheels -- 3. Writing the Play: Creating Disability and DPOs -- 4. Scripts about disability. Stories from the polio-houses -- Part II: After the Play? (An Ethnographic Critique of Project Society) -- 5. Discrimination as Structural Violence -- 6. Perceptions, representations and coloniality -- 7. Expulsions: Disability, Power, Land, and Citizen’s Rights -- 8. Hope. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book examines disability in post-war Sierra Leone. Its protagonists are polio-disabled people living in the nation’s capital of Freetown, organizing themselves as best as they can in a state without welfare. There is little concrete support for people with disabilities in a country where the government is struggling with the competing requirements of the international community, demanding - in exchange for its support - good standards of democracy and the maintenance of a free |
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market economy. To what extent is the Human Rights framework of the disability movement effective in protecting the polio-disabled and what are the limitations of this framework? Diana Szántó’s detailed ethnography reveals, through many real-life examples, the vulnerability of disabled people living in the intersections of poverty, informality and disability activism. At the same time, it also tells about the many ways the polio-disabled community is transforming vulnerability into strength. |
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