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

• VerfasserIn: Grech, Shaun,
• Place / Publishing House: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;, New York, NY : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Palgrave studies in disability and international development
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (316 pages) :; illustrations, map.

"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.

Table of 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.