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Autore: | Szántó Diana |
Titolo: | Politicising Polio : Disability, Civil Society and Civic Agency in Sierra Leone / / by Diana Szántó |
Pubblicazione: | Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. 2020. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (327 pages) |
Disciplina: | 305.908 |
Soggetto topico: | People with disabilities |
Medical anthropology | |
Social work | |
Economic development | |
Disability Studies | |
Medical Anthropology | |
Social Work | |
Development Studies | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Politicising Polio |
ISBN: | 981-13-6111-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910370040003321 |
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