Women with Disabilities as Agents of Peace, Change and Rights: Experiences from Sri Lanka

This book highlights the critical role of women with disabilities in post-armed conflict rebuilding and development in Sri Lanka. It provides a unique insight into the processes of gendered-disability advocacy activation and reveals the generative praxis of social solidarity and cohesion through their collective practices. It will be of interest to academics and students in disability studies, gender studies, post-conflict studies, peace studies, and social work.

Format: Hardback
Length: 108 pages
Publication date: 30 October 2020
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Drawing on rich empirical work emerging from core conflict regions within the island nation of Sri Lanka, this book illustrates the critical role that women with disabilities play in post-armed conflict rebuilding and development. This pathbreaking book shows the critical role that women with disabilities play in post-armed conflict rebuilding and development. Through offering a rare yet important insight into the processes of gendered-disability advocacy activation within the post-conflict environment, it provides a unique counter narrative to the powerful images, symbols, and discourses that too frequently perpetuate disabled womens so-called need for paternalistic forms of care. Rather than being the mere recipients of aid and help, the narratives of women with disabilities reveal the generative praxis of social solidarity and cohesion, progressed via their nascent collective practices of gendered-disability advocacy. It will be of interest to academics and students working in the fields of disability studies, gender studies, post-conflict studies, peace studies, and social work.

Drawing on rich empirical work emerging from core conflict regions within the island nation of Sri Lanka, this book illustrates the critical role that women with disabilities play in post-armed conflict rebuilding and development.

This pathbreaking book shows the critical role that women with disabilities play in post-armed conflict rebuilding and development. Through offering a rare yet important insight into the processes of gendered-disability advocacy activation within the post-conflict environment, it provides a unique counter narrative to the powerful images, symbols, and discourses that too frequently perpetuate disabled womens so-called need for paternalistic forms of care. Rather than being the mere recipients of aid and help, the narratives of women with disabilities reveal the generative praxis of social solidarity and cohesion, progressed via their nascent collective practices of gendered-disability advocacy.

It will be of interest to academics and students working in the fields of disability studies, gender studies, post-conflict studies, peace studies, and social work.

Weight: 340g
Dimension: 159 x 243 x 9 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781138085244