A note on language Acknowledgements Part 1: Introduction Why this book? Setting out the issues: an interview with B.Venkatesh Part 2: The issues The experience of disability The politics of disability: what is at stake? Disability and development: the basics Towards social action Language and numbers Part 3: Case studies Zanzibar: starting from scratch on CBR and Social action Zimbawe: forming a disability movement India: social action in a highly complex society Jordan and the occupied territories: community action with disabled children in refugee camps Lebanon: rebuilding civic consciousness Part 4: Conclusions Disability and liberation Notes Appendix: some organisations dealing with disability and development Suggestions for further reading Index
Peter Coleridge is currently Inependent consultant on development specialising in disability at Independent Consultant, Self-Employed, Llandrindod Wells, United Kingdom
The message of this ground-breaking book is for us all to liberate ourselves from the forces that would normalise us into an unjust society. It calls us to embrace diversity and work together to create a fairer, more flexible social order in which all people - whatever our strengths and weaknesses - can live with dignity and self-determination. David Werner, author of Where There is no Doctor (Hesperian Foundation).
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