Disability and social movements : learning from Australian experiences / / Rachel Carling-Jenkins

• Autore: Carling-Jenkins Rachel
• Pubblicazione: Burlington : , : Ashgate Publishing Company, , [2014]; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (185 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.40994
• Soggetto topico: People with disabilities - Australia; Social movements - Australia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Abstract -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Positioning disability in Australia -- Philosophy and disability -- Theory and disability -- Disability in Australian history -- New social movements from which disability can learn -- The Australian disability rights movement(s) -- In reflection -- References.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Disability and social movements
• ISBN: 1-315-57736-4; 1-317-15025-2; 1-317-15024-4; 1-4724-4633-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787055003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Interdisciplinary disability studies.