Routledge International Disability Rights Advocacy - Routledge Book

This Routledge book examines the globally interconnected disability rights community and its contemporary political activities. It analyses how disability rights activism shapes the global apparatus of disability-related knowledge, revealing the ways advocacy influences how we categorise, classify, distribute, and transform knowledge. The work explores the mutually constitutive relationships between the practical moral knowledge of international disability advocates and the formal disability rights norms codified in international treaties such as the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Part of the Interdisciplinary Disability Studies series, this volume demonstrates the critical role that international disability advocacy plays in institutional critique and the development of moral frameworks within global governance structures.