ISBN:
1107000874
,
9781107000872
Language:
English
Pages:
XVIII, 293 S.
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Cambridge disability law and policy series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Vanhala, Lisa, 1979 - Making rights a reality?
DDC:
342.4108/7
Keywords:
People with disabilities Legal status, laws, etc
;
History
;
People with disabilities History
;
People with disabilities Legal status, laws, etc
;
History
;
People with disabilities History
;
Großbritannien
;
Kanada
;
Behindertenrecht
;
Großbritannien
;
Kanada
;
Behindertenrecht
Abstract:
"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. It then shows how the diffusion of this rights model of disability can explain how and why disability activists have deployed legal strategies in pursuit of their goals. 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"--Provided by publisher
Abstract:
Introduction : Legal mobilization and accommodating social movements -- Rights and political identity in the Canadian disability movement -- Disability equality and opportunity in the Supreme Court of Canada -- Disability organizations and the diffusion of rights in the United Kingdom -- Framing disability equality in the UK courts -- Conclusions : Litigation, mobilization and social movements
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : Legal mobilization and accommodating social movements -- Rights and political identity in the Canadian disability movement -- Disability equality and opportunity in the Supreme Court of Canada -- Disability organizations and the diffusion of rights in the United Kingdom -- Framing disability equality in the UK courts -- Conclusions : Litigation, mobilization and social movements.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-281) and index
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