RT Book
T1 Making rights a reality?: disability rights activists and legal mobilization
T2 Cambridge disability law and policy series
A1 Vanhala, Lisa 1979-
LA English
PP Cambridge u.a.
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 2011
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/638301394
AB "Making Rights a Reality? explores the way in which disability activists in the United Kingdom and Canada have transformed their aspirations into legal claims in their quest for equality. It unpacks shifting conceptualizations of the political identity of disability and the role of a rights discourse in these dynamics. In doing so, it delves into the diffusion of disability rights among grassroots organizations and the traditional disability charities. It then shows how the diffusion of this rights model of disability can explain how and why disability activists have deployed legal strategies in pursuit of their goals. The book draws on a wealth of primary sources including court records and campaign documents and encompassing interviews with more than sixty activists and legal experts. While showing that the disability rights movement has had a significant impact on equality jurisprudence in two countries, the book also demonstrates that the act of mobilizing rights can have consequences, both intended and unintended, for social movements themselves"--Provided by publisher
AB Introduction : Legal mobilization and accommodating social movements -- Rights and political identity in the Canadian disability movement -- Disability equality and opportunity in the Supreme Court of Canada -- Disability organizations and the diffusion of rights in the United Kingdom -- Framing disability equality in the UK courts -- Conclusions : Litigation, mobilization and social movements
NO Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-281) and index
CN K1970
SN 1107000874
SN 9781107000872
K1 People with disabilities : Legal status, laws, etc : Great Britain : History
K1 People with disabilities : Great Britain : History
K1 People with disabilities : Legal status, laws, etc : Canada : History
K1 People with disabilities : Canada : History
K1 Großbritannien
K1 Kanada
K1 Behindertenrecht
K1 Großbritannien : Kanada : Behindertenrecht