Del 91 - Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

Disability in Africa

Inclusion, Care, and the Ethics of Humanity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Av Nic Hamel, Toyin Falola, Nic (Author) Hamel, Professor Toyin (Series Editor) Falola, Toyin, Falola

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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.While the disability rights movement of recent decades has a rich and well-documented history, it is a history mostly focused on the Global North. Disability in Africa presents an interdisciplinary approach to cultural, health, and policy challenges that disability issues have raised throughout the African continent. The volume draws on the achievements of disability studies while acknowledging the demands and challenges of particular African contexts. The authors bring diverse methodological approaches and expertise to bear on these issues, ranging from anthropology and bioethics to special education and community rehabilitation. Essays consider indigenously African definitions of disability as well as exploring disability at the intersection of poverty, geography, and globalized biopolitics. Contributors analyze the difficulties of implementing disability policy across the continent while also being mindful of successful approaches taken at local, national, and international levels. Disability in Africa thus charts new avenues for disability studies research in and about Africa.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-06-15
Mått152 x 229 x 31 mm
Vikt760 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Antal sidor452
FörlagBoydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN9781580469715

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Nic Hamel is finishing a PhD at the University of Texas at Austin and is also currently teaching there. TOYIN FALOLA is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History and Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas, Austin, TX. He is the series editor of the University of Rochester Press' series Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. ERNEST COLE is the John Dirk Werkman Endowed Professor of English at Hope College, Holland, Michigan, and Associate Editor of African Literature Today.

PART ONE: INTRODUCING THE FIELDAfricanizing Disability: Toward an Articulation of African Disability Studies -Toyin Falola and Nic HamelDisability Studies: A Disciplinary Overview - Toyin Falola, Anna Lee Carothers, and Nic HamelPART TWO: THEORIZING DISABILITY IN AFRICAAn African Ethics of Social Well-Being: Understanding Disability and Public Health - Maria BerghsRethinking African Disability Studies: From the Cultural-Deficit Model to a Socio-Economic Perspective - Fikru Negash GebrekidanDisability in Africa: A Cultural/Religious Perspective - Mary NyangwesoDisability and Cultural Meaning Making in Africa Kathryn - Linn Guerts PART THREE: REPRESENTATION AND CULTURAL EXPRESSIONSDisfiguration, Trauma, and Disability: Reclaiming the Body and the Case against Prosthetics - Ernest ColeParadoxical Dramaturgies: Disability, Ritual, and Resistance in the Plays of Wole Soyinka - Nic HamelDemonizing Madness: Mental Disorders as Deus Ex Machina in Nollywood Movies - Kolawole OlaiyaMasculinity, Disability, and Empire in J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians - Saloua Ben Zahra PART FOUR: EDUCATION, COMMUNITY, AND CAREGIVINGAddressing Poverty and Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Fostering Inclusive Education of Children with Disabilities - Serges Djoyou KamgaInclusive Education and Cultural Relevance in East Africa - Angi Stone-MacDonald and Ozden H. Pinar-IrmakYouth, Women, and Disability in Africa: Economic Empowerment and Community Strategies to Leave No One Behind - Ntombekhaya Tshabalala, Elizabeth Ladner Babi Agbettor, and Theresa LorenzoCaregiving and Support in African Context: A Personal Perspective Frances Emily Owusu-Ansah PART FIVE: ACTIVISM AND BARRIERS TO INCLUSION So that the Stew Reaches Everybody: Women's Negotiations of Leadership and Power in Ghana's DPO's - Denise M. NepveuxDisability Policy, Movement Activism, and the Non-Enforcement of a Disability Act: The Case of Ghana - Emmanuel SackeyStudents with Disabilities' Lack of Opportunity for Sport and Recreational Activities: The Case of South African Universities - Desire ChiwandireRehabilitation and the Realization of Disability Rights - Serges Djoyou Kamga Conclusion: A Research Agenda for African Disability StudiesAnna Lee Carothers and Toyin FalolaNotes on ContributorsSelected BibliographyIndex

I encourage the readers to take in multiple texts within this book. Listen to the multiplicities of voices and perspectives; prepare yourself to challenge mainstream notions of "the handicapped" as well as popular notions in the West about inclusion and disability. You'll learn about African cultural contexts and find perspectives here that you can use to support disabled people wherever you live.