Disabling Barriers : Social Movements, Disability History, and the Law

Ravi Malhotra

ISBN 10: 0774835249 / ISBN 13: 9780774835244

Editore: University Of British Columbia Press Apr 2018, 2018

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Neuware - Ravi Malhotra is a full professor in the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, at the University of Ottawa. He has been a disability-rights advocate for more than twenty-five years and is a member of the Human Rights Committee of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities. He is the co-author (with Morgan Rowe) of Exploring Disability Identity and Disability Rights through Narratives: Finding a Voice of Their Own, which examines the narratives and life experiences of adults with physical disabilities. He is the editor of the interdisciplinary anthology Disability Politics in a Global Economy: Essays in Honour of Marta Russell, which explores the impact of globalization on disability politics.

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• Titolo: Disabling Barriers : Social Movements, Disability History, and the Law
• Editore: University Of British Columbia Press Apr 2018
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0774835249
• ISBN 13: 9780774835244
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 227 L x 154 A x 16 P (millimetri) 227 millimetri di larghezza per 154 millimetri di altezza per 16 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 370 grammi

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Riassunto

Disabling Barriers analyzes issues relating to disability at different moments in Canadian and American history. In this volume, legal scholars, historians, and disability-rights activists explore how disabled people have been portrayed and treated in a variety of contexts, including within the labour market, the workers’ compensation system, the immigration process, and the legal system (both as litigants and as lawyers). The contributors encourage us to rethink our understanding of both the systemic barriers disabled people face and the capacity of disabled people to transform their environment by changing the discourse surrounding disablement.

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Ravi Malhotra is professor in the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, at the University of Ottawa. Benjamin Isitt is a historian and legal scholar specializing in the relationship between social movements and the state in Canada and globally. Contributors: Odelia R. Bay, Jay Dolmage, Anne Finger, Dustin Galer, Benjamin Isitt, Mark Leier, Ravi Malhotra, Geoffrey Reaume, Jen Rinaldi, Megan A. Rusciano, Eric Tucker, and Mark Walters