New from the University of Michigan Press:
Rights Enabled: The Disability Revolution, from the US, to Germany and Japan, to the United Nations, by
Katharina Heyer (University of Hawai’i). The Press explains:
Drawing on extensive fieldwork and a
variety of original sources, Katharina Heyer examines three case
studies—Germany, Japan, and the United Nations—to trace the evolution of
a disability rights model from its origins in the United States through
its adaptations in other democracies to its current formulation in
international law. She demonstrates that, although notions of
disability, equality, and rights are reinterpreted and contested within
various political contexts, ultimately the result may be a more robust
and substantive understanding of equality.
Rights Enabled is a truly
interdisciplinary work, combining sociolegal literature on rights and
legal mobilization with a deep cultural and sociopolitical analysis of
the concept of disability developed in Disability Studies. Heyer raises
important issues for scholarship on comparative rights, the global reach
of social movements, and the uses and limitations of rights-based
activism.
A few blurbs:
“This is a major contribution to Disability Studies scholarship and
should be interesting to readers who want to learn more about
international aspects of disability, particularly readers in political
science, law, and history.”
—Carol Poore, Brown University
“Heyer shows how disability rights moved, on both a national and
international level, from a medical-driven model based on stigma and
charity to an issue of equal rights, inclusion, and dignity. She
explores the journey toward treating disability rights as human rights.”
—Michael Waterstone, Loyola Law School
More information is available
here.
