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• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Table of Contents
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• PART I Introduction – contextualising disability activism
• Introducing disability activism
• A virtual roundtable: re/defining disability activism with emerging global South disability activists
• 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
• 2 ‘These days are ours’: young disabled people’s experiences of activism and participation in social movements
• 3 The links between models and theories to social changes as seen and understood by activists and academics: what works?
• 4 Figures: an artist-activist response to austerity
• 5 As technology giveth, technology taketh away
• 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
• 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
• 8 Resisting the work cure: mental health, welfare reform and the movement against psychocompulsion
• 9 My disability, my ammunition, my asset in advocacy work
• PART IV Belonging, identity and values: diverse coalitions for rights
• 10 Disabled mothers of disabled children: an activism of our children and ourselves
• 11 Dementia as a disability
• 12 Voices from survivors of forced sterilisations in Japan: Eugenics Protection Law 1948–1996
• 13 Indigenous Species
• PART V Reclaiming social positions, places and spaces
• 14 Disability sport and social activism
• 15 Naples in the hands: activism for aesthetic enjoyment
• 16 Pissed off!: disability activists fighting for toilet access in the UK
• 17 Mobility-as-occupation: non-confrontational activism in Trinidad and Tobago
• 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
• 19 ‘With the knife and the cheese in hand!’: a virtual ethnography of the cyber-activist disabled movement in Brazil and its transnational impact
• 20 Australia’s treatment of Indigenous prisoners: the continuing nature of human rights violations in West Australian jail cells
• 21 ‘Lchad Poland’ and the fight against inequality: the role of internet advocacy in cases of a rare genetic condition
• PART VII Campus activism in higher education
• 22 Beyond random acts of diversity: ableism, academia & institutional sites of resistance
• 23 At the margins of academia – on the outside, looking in: refusing, challenging and dismantling the material and ideological bases of academia
• 24 Sensitisation: broadening the agenda to ‘include’ persons with disabilities
• 25 Rainclamation: how installation art can reclaim space, transform collective suffering into poetic resistance and bring aesthetics to disabled viewers
• PART VIII Inclusive pedagogies, evidence and activist practices
• 26 Zimbabwean disability activism from a higher education perch: an uncertain present but exciting future
• 27 Research as activism?: perspectives of people labelled/with intellectual and developmental disabilities engaged in inclusive research and knowledge co-production
• 28 Reinventing activism: evidence-based participatory monitoring as a tool for social change
• PART IX Enabling human rights and policy: Transition: international politics
• 29 Implementation of CRPD in the post-Soviet region: between imitation and authenticity
• 30 Swedish disability activism: from welfare to human rights?
• 31 Gendered disability advocacy: lessons from the Girl Power Programme in Sierra Leone
• 32 ‘We need not remake the past’: rebuilding the disability movement in Toronto, Canada
• PART X Conclusion – the coming challenges and future directions
• 33 Causes and effects of claims for rights: why mainstreaming in Africa matters
• 34 Unsettling realities and rethinking displacement: transforming settlement services for refugees, migrants and people with intellectual disabilities
• 35 Disability futures: activism futures and challenges
• Index