Politicising Polio: Disability, Civil Society and Civic Agency in Sierra Leone 1st ed. 2020 Edition Diana Szántó

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 981136110X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9811361104
• Author(s): Diana Szántó

This book examines disability in post-war Sierra Leone. Its protagonists are polio-disabled people living in the nation’s capital of Freetown, organizing themselves as best as they can in a state without welfare. There is little concrete support for people with disabilities in a country where the government is struggling with the competing requirements of the international community, demanding – in exchange for its support – good standards of democracy and the maintenance of a free market economy. To what extent is the Human Rights framework of the disability movement effective in protecting the polio-disabled and what are the limitations of this framework? Diana Szántó’s detailed ethnography reveals, through many real-life examples, the vulnerability of disabled people living in the intersections of poverty, informality and disability activism. At the same time, it also tells about the many ways the polio-disabled community is transforming vulnerability into strength.

Table contents:

Part I. Staging a Play (A Critical Ethnography of Disability)
1. The Set: Parallel Worlds (Sierra Leone on the World Stage)
2. The Cast On-stage and Off: Polio and Beggars on Wheels
3. Writing the Play: Creating Disability and DPOs
4. Scripts About Disability: Stories from the Polio-Houses
Part II. After the Play? (An Ethnographic Critique of Project Society)
5. Discrimination as Structural Violence
6. Perceptions, Representations and Coloniality
7. Expulsions: Disability, Power, Land and Citizen’s Rights
8. Hope

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