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The book focuses on a well-established stream of research on disability which, both internationally and nationally, has proved fruitful in theoretical and analytical aspect, and was certainly fundamental in the process that led to the recognition of the rights of people with disabilities and the implementation of inclusive policies. The rigorous analysis present in all the chapters of the book also highlight the wide distance between the principles that guide the reflection on this issue, the policies for disability and the living conditions that people with disabilities experience daily. From the book emerges that the challenge is not merely the recognition of the rights of persons with disabilities but also making these rights enforceable. For this to be possible, both efficient and effective policies and a cultural change which recognizes disabled people "as part of human diversity and humanity" is necessary. This means placing at the center of discussion the aspirations and the empowerment of people with disabilities. The book is designed for scholars of disability, but also for social operators who work with disabled people.

Disabled people --- disability studies --- independent living --- social inclusion --- self-determination --- equal opportunities --- policy on disability

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The climatic variations occurring worldwide over the last few years have resulted in severe consequences of which the cyclic flooding. These natural catastrophes diversely impact on local population, mainly disabled people in flooding prone communities. However, existing information indicated a paucity of scientific data on how the life quality of disabled people is being impacted by flooding. As such, this research was set up to fill that gap. It evaluated the impact of inundations on the wellbeing of disabled people in the municipality of Sô-Ava, one of the flooding prone municipalities in Southern Benin. Data were collected in the seven districts of the municipality with the exploratory sequential mixed method approach. The approach includes the use of qualitative and quantitative techniques to collect data. Gathered information was analyzed following the standard methods of data analysis including the analysis of variance (ANOVA), the principal component analysis (PCA), the linear models, etc. The relative frequencies of citation (RFC) were also calculated pour assess the influence of the listed diseases on the disabled peoples’ heath. Results showed that the considered life attributes (health, activities, security and social relationships) were affected at the same manner with the three types of disability considered. Likewise, the heath of the disabled people irrespective of the category is affected during the inundations (IRI=0.85). The category of infectious diseases is the most worrisome to disabled people in the area with 25% of relative frequency of citation. Concerning the adaptation strategies, analyses show that the investigated disabled people have no adaptation strategy during this period. However, they adopt immobilization and migration as a way of adverting the impact of the flooding. On the other hand, stakeholders’ responses during the period are restricted to sensitization, food donation and scholarly items donations. Others also donate mosquito nets, medicines etc.

Wellbeing, disabled people, inundations, Sô-ava, adaptation strategies, catastrophes --- Sciences du vivant > Sciences de l'environnement & écologie

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Exploring issues of disability culture, activism, and policy across the African continent, this volume argues for the recognition of African disability studies as an important and emerging interdisciplinary field.

Sociology of disability --- People with disabilities --- Social conditions. --- Cripples --- Disabled --- Disabled people --- Disabled persons --- Handicapped --- Handicapped people --- Individuals with disabilities --- People with physical disabilities --- Persons with disabilities --- Physically challenged people --- Physically disabled people --- Physically handicapped --- Persons --- Disabilities --- Sociology of disablement --- Sociology of impairment --- Sociological aspects --- Africa. --- Cultural. --- Disability. --- Globalized Biopolitics. --- Health. --- Inclusion. --- Interdisciplinary. --- Policy. --- Poverty. --- Research.

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This book investigates various experiences of teaching sexual and reproductive health to adolescents with disabilities. Following the adoption of the UNCRPD, adolescents with disabilities still commonly suffer from widespread violation of their rights particularly concerning sexual and reproductive health – often being viewed as either asexual or hypersexual. Contemporary societies do not readily encourage the participation of these young people in conversations or decision making processes concerning their own sexual and reproductive health. This book delves into such complex issues, critically examining how global communities attempt to teach sexual and reproductive issues to adolescents with disabilities in the modern era. Tafadzwa Rugoho (PhD) is a lecturer at Great Zimbabwe University in the Department of Development Studies, and has authored more than twenty book chapters and several journal papers on disability issues. He is also a guest Lecturer at the University of Pretoria where he teaches Sexuality and Social Media. France Maphosa (PhD) is a Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Botswana. He has been awarded several research grants including the ORREA Senior Scholars Research Grant, CODESRIA Advanced Research Fellowship Grant and the CODESRIA National Working Group Research Grant.

Social medicine. --- People with disabilities. --- Gender identity. --- Medical education. --- Economic development. --- Medical Sociology. --- Disability Studies. --- Gender and Sexuality. --- Medical Education. --- Development Studies. --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Medical personnel --- Professional education --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Cripples --- Disabled --- Disabled people --- Disabled persons --- Handicapped --- Handicapped people --- Individuals with disabilities --- People with physical disabilities --- Persons with disabilities --- Physically challenged people --- Physically disabled people --- Physically handicapped --- Persons --- Disabilities --- Sociology of disability --- Medical care --- Medical sociology --- Medicine --- Medicine, Social --- Public health --- Public welfare --- Sociology --- Medical ethics --- Medical sociologists --- Education --- Social aspects --- Gender dysphoria

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"Embodied Archive focuses on perceptions of disability and racial difference in Mexico's early post-revolutionary period, from the 1920s to the 1940s. In this period, Mexican state-sponsored institutions charged with the education and health of the population sought to strengthen and improve the future of the nation, and to forge a more racially homogeneous sense of collective identity and history. Influenced by regional and global movements in eugenics and hygiene, Mexican educators, writers, physicians, and statesmen argued for the widespread physical and cognitive testing and categorization of schoolchildren, so as to produce an accurate and complete picture of "the Mexican child," and to carefully monitor and control forms of unwanted difference, including disability and racialized characteristics. Differences were not generally marked for eradication-as would be the case in eugenics movements in the US, Canada, and parts of Europe-but instead represented possible influences from a historically distant or immediate reproductive past, or served as warnings of potential danger haunting individual or collective futures. Weaving between the historical context of Mexico's post-revolutionary period and our present-day world, Embodied Archive approaches literary and archival documents that include anti-alcohol and hygiene campaigns; projects in school architecture and psychopedagogy; biotypological studies of urban schoolchildren and indigenous populations; and literary approaches to futuristic utopias or violent pasts. It focuses in particular on the way disability is represented indirectly through factors that may have caused it in the past or may cause it in the future, or through perceptions and measurements that cannot fully capture it. In engaging with these narratives, the book proposes an archival encounter, a witnessing of past injustices and their implications for the disability of our present and future"--

Social conditions. --- Racism. --- Race in mass media. --- People with disabilities --- People with disabilities in mass media. --- Racism --- Mexico. --- Mexico --- Social conditions --- Handicapped in mass media --- Mass media --- Cripples --- Disabled --- Disabled people --- Disabled persons --- Handicapped --- Handicapped people --- Individuals with disabilities --- People with physical disabilities --- Persons with disabilities --- Physically challenged people --- Physically disabled people --- Physically handicapped --- Persons --- Disabilities --- Sociology of disability --- Bias, Racial --- Race bias --- Race prejudice --- Racial bias --- Prejudices --- Anti-racism --- Critical race theory --- Race relations --- Descriptive sociology --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- Anáhuac --- Estados Unidos Mexicanos --- Maxico --- Méjico --- Mekishiko --- Meḳsiḳe --- Meksiko --- Meksyk --- Messico --- Mexique (Country) --- República Mexicana --- Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku --- United Mexican States --- United States of Mexico --- מקסיקו --- メキシコ --- Disability