Making Rights a Reality? : Disability Rights Activists and Legal Mobilization Paperback / softback
by Lisa Vanhala
Part of the Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series series
Paperback / softback
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Making Rights a Reality? explores the way in which disability activists in the United Kingdom and Canada have transformed their aspirations into legal claims in their quest for equality.
It unpacks shifting conceptualizations of the political identity of disability and the role of a rights discourse in these dynamics.
In doing so, it delves into the diffusion of disability rights among grassroots organizations and the traditional disability charities.
The book draws on a wealth of primary sources including court records and campaign documents and encompassing interviews with more than sixty activists and legal experts.
While showing that the disability rights movement has had a significant impact on equality jurisprudence in two countries, the book also demonstrates that the act of mobilizing rights can have consequences, both intended and unintended, for social movements themselves.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages, 14 Tables, unspecified; 1 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/01/2014
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- ISBN:9781107616400
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages, 14 Tables, unspecified; 1 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/01/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781107616400
