Disability, Human Rights and the Limits of Humanitarianism

Download or read book Disability, Human Rights and the Limits of Humanitarianism written by Assoc Prof Cathy J Schlund-Vials and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary human rights discourses problematically co-opt disabled bodies as ‘evidence’ of harms done under capitalism, war, and other forms of conflict, while humanitarian non-governmental organizations often use disabled bodies to generate resources for their humanitarian projects. It is the connection between civil rights and human rights, and the concomitant relationship between national and global, which foregrounds this book’s contention that disability studies productively challenge such human rights paradigms, which troublingly eschew disability rights in favor of exclusionary humanitarianism.