The Palgrave handbook of disability and citizenship in the Global South

This handbook questions, debates and subverts commonly held assumptions about disability and citizenship in the global postcolonial context.

Discourses of citizenship and human rights, so elemental to strategies for addressing disability-based inequality in wealthier nations, have vastly different ramifications in societies of the Global South, where resources for development are limited, democratic processes may be uncertain, and access to education, health, transport and other key services can't be taken for granted.

In a broad range of areas relevant to disability equity and transformation, an eclectic group of contributors critically consider whether, when and how citizenship may be used as a lever of change in circumstances far removed from UN boardrooms in New York or Geneva.