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Author Grech, Shaun, author.

Title Disability and poverty in the global South : renegotiating development in Guatemala / Shaun Grech, Director, The Critical Institute, Malta.

Publication Info. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations, map.
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Series Palgrave studies in disability and international development
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Disability, Poverty And Development: Mapping The Terrain -- 2. Guatemala: Context, History And Disability Landscapes -- 4. Disability And Poverty: Connections And Transitions -- 5. Disability And Povery: More Connections -- 6. Disabled Families: Survival Struggles And Collective Impoverishment -- 7. Un/Transforming Structures: The Institutional Framework -- 8. Final Reflections.
Summary "The author provides unprecedented critical, interdisciplinary explorations of the complex dynamics and intersectionalities operating between disability and poverty in rural areas, an assumed relationship that is too often misunderstood. Reporting on long term ethnographic work in Guatemala and prioritising the voices, knowledge and narratives of disabled people and their families, Grech offers an incisive and refined critical analysis of the various complex barriers and interactions in the disability/poverty/rurality nexus encountered by what Grech calls 'disabled families'. The book opens up discussions on a broad range of themes traversing conceptual, spatial, historical, embodied, spiritual, racial, sexual and gendered terrains among others. It challenges and reframes established, often imposed discourses and practices, and contests issues of (re)presentation, Eurocentrism, and coloniality. Finally, it contributes new and uncharted reflections for further debate, which are indispensable to the emerging disability and development/global South discourse, research and practice"-- Provided by publisher.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject People with disabilities -- Guatemala -- Economic conditions.
Disabilities -- Economic aspects.
Poverty -- Guatemala.
Economic development -- Guatemala.
Guatemala -- Social conditions.
Guatemala -- Economic conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Grech, Shaun. Disability and poverty in the global South : renegotiating development in Guatemala. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 Palgrave studies in disability and international development 9781137307972
ISBN 9781137307972 (hardback)
9781137307989 (e-book)

 
    
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