{"product_id":"the-routledge-international-handbook-of-disability-human-rights-hierarchies-paperback","title":"The Routledge International Handbook of Disability Human Rights Hierarchies - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephen Meyers\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMegan McCloskey\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eGabor Petri\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisability is defined by hierarchy. Regardless of culture or context, persons with disabilities are almost always pushed to the bottom of the social hierarchy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the advent of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006), disability human rights seemingly provided a path forward for tearing down ableist social hierarchies and ensuring that all persons with disabilities everywhere were treated equally. Despite important progress, the disability human rights project not only remains incomplete, but has often created new hierarchies among persons with disabilities themselves or across the human rights it promotes. Certain groups of persons with disabilities have gained new voices while others remain silenced and certain rights are prioritized over others depending on what states, international organizations, or advocates want rather than what those on the ground need most.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume was inspired both by the continued need to expose human rights violations against persons with disabilities, but to also explore the nuanced role that hierarchies play in the spread, implementation, and protection of disability human rights. The enjoyment of human rights is not equal nor is the recognition of specific individuals and groups' rights. In order to change this situation, inequalities across the disability human rights movement must be explored.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDivided into five parts: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eWho counts as disabled?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePolitical, social, and cultural context\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhich rights on top, whose rights on bottom?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePushed to the periphery in the disability rights movement\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRepresentations of disability \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eand comprised of 34 newly-written chapters including case-studies from the Anglophone Caribbean, Bangladesh, Bosnia-Herzegovina, China, Ghana, Haiti, Hungary, India, Israel, Kenya, Latin America, Poland, Russia, Scotland, Serbia and South Africa, and other countries, this book will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, sociology, human rights law and social policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStephen J. Meyers\u003c\/strong\u003e is Director of the Center for Global Studies, at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He is the author of Civilizing Disability Society: The UN Disability Convention socializing grassroots disabled persons organizations in Nicaragua. Cambridge University Press, 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMegan McCloskey\u003c\/strong\u003e is Senior Fellow, Disability Inclusive Development Initiative, International Policy Institute, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGabor Petri\u003c\/strong\u003e is postdoctoral researcher at the Democracy Institute, Central European University, Budapest and Honorary Lecturer at the Tizard Centre at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 648\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.35 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 29, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67603856916754,"sku":"9781032530840","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/2211\/5346\/files\/SUnVJalsme9781032530840.webp?v=1791370261","url":"https:\/\/ckbookstore.net\/products\/the-routledge-international-handbook-of-disability-human-rights-hierarchies-paperback","provider":"CK BOOKSTORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}