Disability, Human Rights and the Limits of Humanitarianism (Interdisciplinary Disability Studies)

by Cathy J . Schlund - Vials (Author), Michael Gill (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2014

  $169.60

  Contemporary human rights discourses problematically co-opt disabled bodies as 'evidence' of harms done under capitalism, war, and other forms of conflict, while humanitarian non-governmental organizations often use disabled bodies to generate resources for their humanitarian projects. It is the connection between civil rights and human rights.