Rights Enabled: The Disability Revolution, from the Us, to Germany and Japan, to the United Nations (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780472052479)

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 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.

Author: Katharina C. Heyer
ISBN-10: 0472052470
ISBN-13: 9780472052479
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Language: English
Published: 03/30/2015
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2015