Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides insight into the globally interlinked disability rights community and its political efforts today. By analysing what disability rights activism contributes to a global power apparatus of disability-related knowledge, it demonstrates how disability advocacy influences the way we categorise, classify, distribute, manipulate, and therefore transform knowledge.
By unpacking the mutually constitutive relations between (practical) moral knowledge of international disability advocates and (formal) disability rights norms that are codified in international treaties such as the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the author shows that the disability rights movement is largely critical of statements that attempt to streamline it. At the same time, cross-cultural disability rights advocacy requires images of uniformity to stabilise its global legitimacy among international stakeholders and retain a common meta-code that visibly identif
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
PART I
2. Theory with unstable referents
3. Methodical approach
PART II
4. Reflecting languages and symbols
5. Paradigmatic lines and actor relationships
6. Reconciling multiple knowledges
7. Categorising and explaining as knowledge change
8. Advocacy knowledge as political-legal intervention
9. Final discussion
