The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism

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The onslaught of neoliberalism, austerity measures and cuts, impact of climate change, protracted conflicts and ongoing refugee crisis, rise of far right and populist movements have all negatively impacted on disability. Yet, disabled people and their allies are fighting back and we urgently need to understand how, where and what they are doing, what they feel their challenges are and what their future needs will be. This comprehensive handbook emphasizes the importance of everyday disability activism and how activists across the world bring together a wide range of activism tactics and strategies. It also challenges the activist movements, transnational and emancipatory politics, as well as providing future directions for disability activism. Dedication Contents List of contributors Acknowledgements Part I: Introduction – contextualising disability activism Introducing disability activism • Maria Berghs, Tsitsi Chataika, Kudakwashe Dube & Yahya El-Lahib A virtual roundtable: re/defining disability activism with emerging global South disability activists • Tsitsi Chataika (ed), Samantha Sibanda, Abraham Mateta & Krishna Bahadur Sunar 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 • Mo Stewart 2 ‘These days are ours’: young disabled people’s experiences of activism and participation in social movements • Miro Griffiths 3 The links between models and theories to social changes as seen and understood by activists and academics: what works? • Joanne Sansome 4 Figures: an artist-activist response to austerity • Liz Crow 5 As technology giveth, technology taketh away • John Rae 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 • Alan Santinele Martino & Margaret Campbell 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 • Fabrizio Loce-Mandes 8 Resisting the work cure: mental health, welfare reform and the movement against psychocompulsion • Denise McKenna, Paula Peters & Rich Moth 9 My disability, my ammunition, my asset in advocacy work • Tafadzwa Rugoho Part IV: Belonging, identity and values: diverse coalitions for rights 10 Disabled mothers of disabled children: an activism of our children and ourselves • Liz Crow & Wendy Merchant 11 Dementia as a disability • Kate Swaffer, Brian LeBlanc & Peter Mittler 12 Voices from survivors of forced sterilisations in Japan: Eugenics Protection Law 1948–1996 • Nagase Osamu 13 Indigenous Species • Khairani Barokka Part V: Reclaiming social positions, places and spaces 14 Disability sport and social activism • Damian Haslett & Brett Smith 15 Naples in the hands: activism for aesthetic enjoyment • Ciro Pizzo, Carmela Pacelli & Maria Grazia Gargiulo 16 Pissed off!: disability activists fighting for toilet access in the UK • Charlotte Jones, Jen Slater, Sam Cleasby, Gill Kemp, Eleanor Lisney & Sarah Rennie 17 Mobility-as-occupation: non-confrontational activism in Trinidad and Tobago • Sylette Henry-Buckmire 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 • Nqobani Dube 19 ‘With the knife and the cheese in hand!’: a virtual ethnography of the cyber-activist disabled movement in Brazil and its transnational impact • Marco Antonio Gavério, Anahi Guedes de Mello & Pamela Block 20 Australia’s treatment of Indigenous prisoners: the continuing nature of human rights violations in West Australian jail cells • Hannah McGlade 21 ‘Lchad Poland’ and the fight against inequality: the role of internet advocacy in cases of a rare genetic condition • Anna Chowaniec-Rylke Part VII: Campus activism in higher education 22 Beyond random acts of diversity: ableism, academia & institutional sites of resistance • Stephanie J. Cork, Beth Douthirt-Cohen, Kelly M. Hoffman, Paul T. Jaeger & Amanda Strausser 23 At the margins of academia – on the outside, looking in: refusing, challenging and dismantling the material and ideological bases of academia • Armineh Soorenian 24 Sensitisation: broadening the agenda to ‘include’ persons with disabilities • Pragya Deora 25 Rainclamation: how installation art can reclaim space, transform collective suffering into poetic resistance and bring aesthetics to disabled viewers • Erin Davenport Part VIII: Inclusive pedagogies, evidence and activist practices 26 Zimbabwean disability activism from a higher education perch: an uncertain present but exciting future • Martin Musengi 27 Research as activism?: perspectives of people labelled/with intellectual and developmental disabilities engaged in inclusive research and knowledge co-production • Ann Fudge Schormans, Heather Allan, Donavon O’Neil Allen, Christine Austin, Kareem Elbard, Kevin John Head, Tyler Henderson, Karrissa Horan-LaRoche, Rainbow Hunt, Nathan Gray, Rex Marchi, Donna McCormick, Romeo Dontae Tresean Biggz Pierre & Sean Rowley 28 Reinventing activism: evidence-based participatory monitoring as atool for social change 369Marcia Rioux, Paula Campos Pinto, Dagnachew Wakene, Rados Keravica& Jose Viera Part IX: Enabling human rights and policy: Transition: international politics 29 Implementation of CRPD in the post-Soviet region: between imitation and authenticity • Egle Sumskiene, Violeta Gevorgieniene & Rasa Geniene 30 Swedish disability activism: from welfare to human rights? • Marie Sépulchre & Lars Lindberg 31 Gendered disability advocacy: lessons from the Girl Power Programme in Sierra Leone • Emma Frobisher, Willem Elbers & Auma Okwany 32 ‘We need not remake the past’: rebuilding the disability movement in Toronto, Canada • Melissa Graham Part X: Conclusion – the coming challenges and future directions 33 Causes and effects of claims for rights: why mainstreaming in Africa matters • Kudakwashe Dube 34 Unsettling realities and rethinking displacement: transforming settlement services for refugees, migrants and people with intellectual disabilities • Natalie Spagnuolo & Yahya El-Lahib 35 Disability futures: activism futures and challenges • Maria Berghs, Tsitsi Chataika, Yahya El-Lahib & Kudakwashe Dube Index