Disability in Local and Global Worlds

by Ingstad, Benedicte

• ISBN13: 9780520246171
• ISBN10: 0520246179
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-19
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

The lives of many disabled people in Europe and North America have improved over the past two decades through innovative technologies and the efforts of the disability rights movement. These changes have been spreading to other societies around the globe--albeit unevenly. In this collection of essays, leading scholars explore global changes in disability awareness, technology, and policy from the viewpoint of disabled people and their families in a wide range of local contexts. The authors report on ethnographic research in Brazil, Uganda, Botswana, Somalia, Britain, Israel, China, Egypt, India, and Japan. They address the definition of disability, the new eugenics, human rights in local contexts, domestic and state citizenship of disabled people, and issues of identity and belonging.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. VII
Acknowledgments	p. IX
Introduction: Disability Connections	p. 1
Locating Embodied Identities
The Two-Week Village: The Significance of Sacred Occasions for the Deaf Community	p. 33
From "Complete" to "Impaired" Body: Female Circumcision in Somalia and London	p. 56
Reproductively Disabled Lives: Infertility, Stigma, and Suffering in Egypt and India	p. 78
The Chosen Body and the Rejection of Disability in Israeli Society	p. 107
Disability and Domestic Citizenship: Voice, Gender, and the Making of the Subject	p. 128
Domba's Spirit Kidney: Transplant Medicine and Suya Indian Cosmology	p. 149
Localizing Policy and Technology
Genomics, Laissez-Faire Eugenics, and Disability	p. 189
Why Am I Not Disabled? Making State Subjects, Making Statistics in Post-Mao China	p. 212
Seeing Disability and Human Rights in the Local Context: Botswana Revisited	p. 237
Moral Discourse and Old-Age Disability in Japan	p. 259
Wheels and New Legs: Mobilization in Uganda	p. 287
List of Contributors	p. 311
Index	p. 315
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