03621nam 22005895 450 991037004000332120200706100921.0981-13-6111-810.1007/978-981-13-6111-1(CKB)4100000009845102(MiAaPQ)EBC5979107(DE-He213)978-981-13-6111-1(EXLCZ)99410000000984510220191115d2020 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPoliticising Polio Disability, Civil Society and Civic Agency in Sierra Leone /by Diana Szántó1st ed. 2020.Singapore :Springer Singapore :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2020.1 online resource (327 pages)981-13-6110-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 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.People with disabilitiesMedical anthropologySocial workEconomic developmentDisability Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22280Medical Anthropologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X12080Social Workhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X21000Development Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/913000People with disabilities.Medical anthropology.Social work.Economic development.Disability Studies.Medical Anthropology.Social Work.Development Studies.305.908Szántó Dianaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut898227MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910370040003321Politicising Polio2007034UNINA