The Routledge international handbook of disability human rights hierarchies / edited by Stephen J. Meyers, Megan McCloskey and Gabor Petri.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Who counts as disabled?. Knowing about the human rights situation of women burn survivors in Bangladesh / Jannatul Ferdous Ivy
Creating a STORM : working together to fight stigma and stand up for the rights of people with learning disabilities / Lisa Richardson, Michaela Osborne, Christine Burke, Karuna Davies, Adrian Brown, Celia Brown, Paul Davies, Harry Roche and Katrina Scior
Rethinking the capacities of disabled children from the perspective of new materialism / Radoš Keravica
A journey to realize an autistic's rights / Rebekah Kintzinger, Stephanie Côté and Ajay Gandhi
"To tremble, else break" : dismantling normative hierarchies of chronic Lyme / Pavithra Suresh
The balancing act : disability at the intersection of minority ethnicity / Stéphanie Harvey and Julie Jaye Charles
Mental health service users claiming their right to self-advocacy : the journey of Autoekprosopsi / Leonardos Skordos, Diakakis Panagiottis, Garyfalia Marini, Athina Fragkouli and Panagiota Fitsiou
Developing cultural capacity with people who have profound intellectual disabilities / Nicola Clare Grove, Annie Fergusson, Gillian White, Naomi Hewardine, Karen Bunning, Maureen Phillip, Sue Ledger and Elizabeth Tilley
Fighting for the rights of the non-speaking : typing words to be heard / Nicolas Joncour
Part II. Political, social, and cultural context. Exploring the now and the prospects of the disability rights movement in Latin America / Ana María Sánchez Rodríguez and Beatriz Miranda Galarza
On the margins while in the midst of conflict : adults with intellectual disabilities in Northern Ireland and Bosnia Herzegovina / Áine Sperrin
Personal assistance services in Poland during the period of higher education : paving the way for independent living / Ewa Giermanowska, Mariola Raclaw and Dorota Szawarska
Theories of social dominance in group-based hierarchies : reflections from the United Nations Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNPRPD) project in Uruguay / Holly Wescott
Intellectual disability and sexuality in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities / Rina B. Pikkel and Chaya Gershuni
On the hierarchy of human rights of persons with disabilities and higher education : capturing the fulfilment of the right to accessibility in Indonesia / Despan Heryansyah and Sahid Hadi
Violence against women and girls with disabilities in residential institutions in Serbia / Kosana Beker and Biljana Janjic
Disability and displacement : disability hierarchy among refugees and other displaced people / Jennifer Ward
Hierarchy, education and persons with disabilities in Anglophone Caribbean / Senator Floyd Morris
Part III. Which rights on top, whose rights on the bottom?. Hierarchies of impairment and digital disability rights / Sarah Lewthwaite and Abi James
Communication rights moderated through hierarchies of disability and childhood / Sharynne McLeod and Jessica McLeod
Including the voices of persons with intellectual disabilities in academia : participatory research, education and development in the academic world / Anikó Sándor, Csilla Cserti-Szauer, András Futár and Jan Walmsley
Exploring intersectional and ethical feminist perspectives as a possible framework for understanding violence against women with disabilities in Africa with specific reference to forced sterilisation / Adetokunbo Johnson and Karin van Marle
Inclusive education through a neoliberal lens : the hierarchal differences between rural and urban China / James Hardy and Gaye Tyler-Merrick
Part IV. Pushed to the periphery of the disability rights movement. Excluded from the disability rights debate : the missed voices of people with speech impairments / Armineh Soorenian
Hierarchies of leadership within disability justice movements : the voices of individuals with intellectual disabilities are often left unheard / Jason Harris, Micah Fialka-Feldman, Megan E. Cartier and Sara Jo Soldovieri
Zhenshchiny. Invalidnost'. Feminizm./Women. Disability. Feminism. : claiming ourselves against ableism / Alyona Lyovina, Maria Tselovatova and Philippa Mullins
Two sides of the same coin : domination of the views of the educated in organisations of the blind in Ghana / Alimata Abdul Karimu
Between the disability movement and the feminist movement : intersectional mobilizations of women with disabilities in Haiti / Dominique Masson, Stephen Baranyi and Ilionor Louis
Part V. Representations of disability. Reflections of misperceptions / James Ian
Pirate Island / Elizabeth Mestheneos
Disability or vulnerability : how courts distinguish between physical and psychosocial disabilities in an employment context / Radina Ugrinova
Rooted in rights : women with disabilities in India and Kenya / Mildred Omino and Shubha Nagesh
Conversation across continents on hierarchies, human security and COVID-19 / Rosemary Joan Gowran, Eileen Davis, Natasha Layton, Ricky Buchanan, Diane Bell, Jody Lee van Heerden, Deepak Nathan and Sureshkumar Kamalakannan
An invitation to contemplate : dialogues about disability hierarchies between South Africa and Scotland / Njabulo Hlongwane, Judith Drake and Jean Cathro
Countering disability hierarchy with cross-disability solidarity / Gabor Gombos and Amita Dhanda
Intersecting identities / Elizabeth Hassler

"Disability is defined by hierarchy. Regardless of culture or context, persons with disabilities are almost always pushed to the bottom of the social hierarchy. With the advent of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006), disability human rights seemingly provided a path forward for tearing down ableist social hierarchies and ensuring that all persons with disabilities everywhere were treated equally. Despite important progress, the disability human rights project not only remains incomplete, but has often created new hierarchies among persons with disabilities themselves or across the human rights it promotes. Certain groups of persons with disabilities have gained new voices while others remain silenced and certain rights are prioritized over others depending on what states, international organizations, or advocates want rather than what those on the ground need most. This volume was inspired both by the continued need to expose human rights violations against persons with disabilities, but to also explore the nuanced role that hierarchies play in the spread, implementation, and protection of disability human rights. The enjoyment of human rights is not equal nor is the recognition of specific individuals and groups' rights. In order to change this situation, inequalities across the disability human rights movement must be explored. Divided into five parts Who counts as disabled? Political, social, and cultural context Which rights on top, whose rights on bottom? Pushed to the periphery in the disability rights movement Representations of disability and comprised of 34 newly-written chapters including case-studies from the Anglophone Caribbean, Bangladesh, Bosnia-Herzegovina, China, Ghana, Haiti, Hungary, India, Israel, Kenya, Latin America, Poland, Russia, Scotland, Serbia and South Africa, and other countries, this book will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, sociology, human rights law and social policy"-- Provided by publisher.

Stephen J. Meyers is Director of the Center for Global Studies, at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He is the author of Civilizing Disability Society: The UN Disability Convention socializing grassroots disabled persons organizations in Nicaragua. Cambridge University Press, 2019. Megan McCloskey is Senior Fellow, Disability Inclusive Development Initiative, International Policy Institute, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Gabor Petri is postdoctoral researcher at the Democracy Institute, Central European University, Budapest and Honorary Lecturer at the Tizard Centre at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

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