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Disabling Discourses and Human Rights Law: A Case Study Based on the Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities
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Liasidou, Anastasia – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2016
This article examines the symbolic power of language to construct and convey disabling discourses, albeit ample rhetoric, on the need to reinstate and safeguard disabled people's human rights and entitlements. The role of language and its discursive ramifications need to be explored and problematized in the light of legal mandates and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, International Law, Civil Rights, Case Studies