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Katharina C. Heyer - Rights Enabled: The Disability Revolution, from the US, to Germany and Japan, to the United Nations - 9780472072477 - V9780472072477
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Rights Enabled: The Disability Revolution, from the US, to Germany and Japan, to the United Nations

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Description for Rights Enabled: The Disability Revolution, from the US, to Germany and Japan, to the United Nations Hardcover. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and a variety of original sources, Katharina C. 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 US through its adaptations in other democracies to its current formulation in international law. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFFG; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.

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 U.S. 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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472072477
SKU
V9780472072477
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About Katharina C. Heyer
Katharina Heyer is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai’i.

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