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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: Introduction - contextualising disability activism -- Introducing disability activism -- A virtual roundtable: re/defining disability activism with emerging global South disability activists -- PART II: Neoliberalism and austerity in the global North -- 1 The impact of neoliberal politics on the welfare and survival of chronically ill and disabled people -- 2 'These days are ours': young disabled people's experiences of activism and participation in social movements -- 3 The links between models and theories to social changes as seen and understood by activists and academics: what works? -- 4 Figures: an artist-activist response to austerity -- 5 As technology giveth, technology taketh away -- PART III: Rights, embodied resistance and disability activism -- 6 Exercising intimate citizenship rights and (re)constructing sexualities: the new place of sexuality in disability activism -- 7 'I show the life, I hereby express my life': activism and art in the political debate between social movements and institutions on D/deaf bodies in Italy -- 8 Resisting the work cure: mental health, welfare reform and the movement against psychocompulsion -- 9 My disability, my ammunition, my asset in advocacy work -- PART IV: Belonging, identity and values: diverse coalitions for rights -- 10 Disabled mothers of disabled children: an activism of our children and ourselves -- 11 Dementia as a disability -- 12 Voices from survivors of forced sterilisations in Japan: Eugenics Protection Law 1948-1996 -- 13 Indigenous Species -- PART V: Reclaiming social positions, places and spaces -- 14 Disability sport and social activism -- 15 Naples in the hands: activism for aesthetic enjoyment.
16 Pissed off!: disability activists fighting for toilet access in the UK -- 17 Mobility-as-occupation: non-confrontational activism in Trinidad and Tobago -- PART VI: Social media, support and activism -- 18 The tragedy of the hidden lamps: in search of disability rights activists from the global South in the digital era -- 19 'With the knife and the cheese in hand!': a virtual ethnography of the cyber-activist disabled movement in Brazil and its transnational impact -- 20 Australia's treatment of Indigenous prisoners: the continuing nature of human rights violations in West Australian jail cells -- 21 'Lchad Poland' and the fight against inequality: the role of internet advocacy in cases of a rare genetic condition -- PART VII: Campus activism in higher education -- 22 Beyond random acts of diversity: ableism, academia & -- institutional sites of resistance -- 23 At the margins of academia - on the outside, looking in: refusing, challenging and dismantling the material and ideological bases of academia -- 24 Sensitisation: broadening the agenda to 'include' persons with disabilities -- 25 Rainclamation: how installation art can reclaim space, transform collective suffering into poetic resistance and bring aesthetics to disabled viewers -- PART VIII: Inclusive pedagogies, evidence and activist practices -- 26 Zimbabwean disability activism from a higher education perch: an uncertain present but exciting future -- 27 Research as activism?: perspectives of people labelled/with intellectual and developmental disabilities engaged in inclusive research and knowledge co-production -- 28 Reinventing activism: evidence-based participatory monitoring as a tool for social change -- PART IX: Enabling human rights and policy: Transition: international politics -- 29 Implementation of CRPD in the post-Soviet region: between imitation and authenticity.
30 Swedish disability activism: from welfare to human rights? -- 31 Gendered disability advocacy: lessons from the Girl Power Programme in Sierra Leone -- 32 'We need not remake the past': rebuilding the disability movement in Toronto, Canada -- PART X: Conclusion - the coming challenges and future directions -- 33 Causes and effects of claims for rights: why mainstreaming in Africa matters -- 34 Unsettling realities and rethinking displacement: transforming settlement services for refugees, migrants and people with intellectual disabilities -- 35 Disability futures: activism futures and challenges -- Index.
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