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Politicising poliodisability, civil society and civic agency in Sierra Leone /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Politicising polioby Diana Szanto.
Reminder of title:	disability, civil society and civic agency in Sierra Leone /
Author:	Szanto, Diana.
Published:	Singapore :Springer Singapore :2020.
Description:	xxv, 313 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	PoliomyelitisPatientsSierra Leone.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6111-1
ISBN:	9789811361111$q(electronic bk.)

Politicising poliodisability, civil society and civic agency in Sierra Leone /
Szanto, Diana.

Politicising poliodisability, civil society and civic agency in Sierra Leone /[electronic resource] :by Diana Szanto. - Singapore :Springer Singapore :2020. - xxv, 313 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

Part I: Staging a play (A Critical Ethnography of Disability) -- 1. The Set: Parallel Worlds (Sierra Leone on the World Stage) -- 2. The Cast Onstage and Off: Polio and Beggars on Wheels -- 3. Writing the Play: Creating Disability and DPOs -- 4. Scripts about disability. Stories from the polio-houses -- Part II: After the Play? (An Ethnographic Critique of Project Society) -- 5. Discrimination as Structural Violence -- 6. Perceptions, representations and coloniality -- 7. Expulsions: Disability, Power, Land, and Citizen's Rights -- 8. Hope.

This book examines disability in post-war Sierra Leone. Its protagonists are polio-disabled people living in the nation's capital of Freetown, organizing themselves as best as they can in a state without welfare. There is little concrete support for people with disabilities in a country where the government is struggling with the competing requirements of the international community, demanding - in exchange for its support - good standards of democracy and the maintenance of a free market economy. To what extent is the Human Rights framework of the disability movement effective in protecting the polio-disabled and what are the limitations of this framework? Diana Szanto's detailed ethnography reveals, through many real-life examples, the vulnerability of disabled people living in the intersections of poverty, informality and disability activism. At the same time, it also tells about the many ways the polio-disabled community is transforming vulnerability into strength.

ISBN: 9789811361111$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-13-6111-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

862068
Poliomyelitis
--Patients--Sierra Leone.

LC Class. No.: RC181.S5 / S933 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 362.196835009664

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