In this Book
- Rights Enabled: The Disability Revolution, from the US, to Germany and Japan, to the United Nations
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
summary
Drawing on extensive fieldwork and a variety of original sources, Katharina Heyer examines three case studies—Germany, Japan, and the United Nations—to trace the evolution of a disability rights model from its origins in the U.S. through its adaptations in other democracies to its current formulation in international law. She demonstrates that, although notions of disability, equality, and rights are reinterpreted and contested within various political contexts, ultimately the result may be a more robust and substantive understanding of equality.
Rights Enabled is a truly interdisciplinary work, combining sociolegal literature on rights and legal mobilization with a deep cultural and sociopolitical analysis of the concept of disability developed in Disability Studies. Heyer raises important issues for scholarship on comparative rights, the global reach of social movements, and the uses and limitations of rights-based activism.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Introduction: Rights Enabled
- pp. 1-14
- 5. Disability Rights as Human Rights
- pp. 167-202
- Conclusion: Tools for Going Global
- pp. 203-212
- References
- pp. 227-238
Additional Information
ISBN
9780472120826
Related ISBN(s)
9780472052479, 9780472072477
MARC Record
OCLC
911594550
Pages
258
Launched on MUSE
2015-06-25
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2015