ENGLC1000 (Woltag)

The onslaught of neoliberalism, austerity measures and cuts, impact of climate change, protracted conflicts and ongoing refugee crisis, rise of far right and populist movements have all negatively impacted on disability. Yet, disabled people and their allies are fighting back and we urgently need to understand how, where and what they are doing, what they feel their challenges are and what their future needs will be. This comprehensive handbook emphasizes the importance of everyday disability activism and how activists across the world bring together a wide range of activism tactics and strategies.

An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival. What is the relationship between design, power, and social justice? "Design justice" is an approach to design that is led by marginalized communities and that aims expilcitly to challenge, rather than reproduce, structural inequalities.

Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames expand their encyclopedic history of the struggle for disability rights in the United States, to include the past ten years of disability rights activism.The book includes a new chapter on the evolving impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the continuing struggle for cross-disability civil and human rights, and the changing perceptions of disability.

Crip Times argues that disability is a central—but often misunderstood—component of global austerity politics. McRuer explores how disabled activists, artists, and cultural movements resist dominant forms of globalization while creating alternative visions through transnational queer disability culture. He ultimately contends that a politics of austerity reinforces exclusionary borders, even as disability justice movements increasingly challenge and reshape these structures.

Disability & Justice: The Capabilities Approach in Practice argues that the capabilities framework does not adequately identify who needs support or how much support is required. The author suggests that even if it could do so, the approach risks reinforcing stigma for people who need accommodations. Ultimately, the book contends that health and disability are morally significant aspects of human experience—something the capabilities approach fails to fully acknowledge.