Palliative care has paid exceedingly little attention to the needs of disabled people nearing end life. It is often assumed that these individuals, like all patients with time left live, arrive at palliative various and vulnerabilities by large, can be understood accommodated within routine standards practice. However, longstanding disabilities have lived continue experience forms prejudice, bias, disenfranchisement, devaluation. Each impose heightened vulnerability, requiring an honest,...

Abstract When we recognize the development and use of information technologies as an emerging global public good, can move away from stark dualisms profit versus human rights, market share accessibility, competition inclusion, to understanding how both private interests are at play in this good. Governments, industry, disability advocacy organizations all involved construction good a complex three-way dance. We argue that context dance it is possible create common ground between IT industry...

Recently global attention has been directed to the situations of girls and boys with disabilities, yet research tells us little about experiences perspectives disabilities except that their lives are filled barriers, violence stigma. I explore how girlhood studies can authentically include disabilities. Drawing on feminist disability studies, argue we use intersectional theory identify diverse embodiments girlhood. In doing this remove trump card see disabled as an integral part studies.

This article responds to the call for producing activist-oriented scholarship by engaging with theoretical and methodological approaches that explore inclusion of women girls disabilities in Vietnam. We consider possibilities connecting different forms knowledge activism reflecting on research practices designed foster social change. Specifically, we ask: how can critical disability studies be more reflexive about which privileges particular ways knowing from Global North? What alternative...

Contributors Acronyms Preface 1. Taking Up and Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Feminists, Gender, Canadian Foreign Policy 2. Engaging Possibilities of Magic: Feminist Pedagogy Part 1: Internationalism Globalization 3. Disrupting Finding Others 4. Gender Trade Policy: Women's Strategies for Access Transformation 5. Of Playing Fields, Competitiveness Will to Win: Representations 2: Human Security 6. Militarized Masculinities Politics Peacekeeping: The Case 7. Myths Canada's Pursuits: Tales Tool...

The pages of Information Society have hosted and incubated a number fine critical studies discussions inclusion accessibility, not least on topics such as universal service, digital divide, community networking, development, access to information, Internet, telecommunications. In one sense, then, this special issue foregrounds questions accessibility they are raised by disability. This may function more-or-less recognizable indeed common characterization understanding Indeed, the various...

Globally, the impacts of natural resource development raise concerns about often disproportionate and negative consequences experienced by Indigenous Peoples, women, girls. We know far less for other often-invisible community members – such as women girls with disabilities, youth, people who identify LGBTQ2S+. Further, promising practices attending to affected communities’ diverse needs experiences in impact assessment are sparse. In Canada, this gap is pressing because, 2019, federal...

Despite calls for no one to be left behind, women and girls with disabilities continue face systemic marginalisation gaps in rights protections that limit their access education, health, public services, justice. Research transnational international relations offers little help understand this gendered disability injustice. This article examines how discussions of elements justice as redistributive, recognition, participative restorative address people well within the United Nations treaty...

We evaluate access for people with disabilities in two Canadian federal government eConsultations — the development of its Innovation Strategy and as part Parliamentary sub-Committee on People Disabilities consultations around Canada Pension Plan Disability hearings. From qualitative interviews disability community well analysis key documents, we illustrate what worked ensuring Canadians served to create additional barriers access. suggest, first, that accessibility is not same thing...

In an important article in Disability & Society Hughes argued that ontology is becoming a 'live issue' disability studies. Different sources, including non‐western and aboriginal conceptions of cosmology the literature on philosophy, religion, palliative healthcare, suggest we are missing critical aspect humanity our discussions – spirit. Drawing upon collectively defined or interpreted experiences identified non‐Western communities identify gaps ontological which result from taken for...

Canadian disability-related policies are shaped within a global system of inequalities, including colonialism and neoliberalism. Using critical theory framework, this article examines the complicated material inequalities experienced by people with disabilities evident in intersections disability, gender, Indigenousness, race, age. The collectively held ideas that give context to disability at odds. Human rights protections found foundational documents society part its international...

Livelihoods, or the means to secure necessities of life, shape how we live as individuals, families and communities, our sense well-being. While discussions livelihoods have influenced academic government actions in international development over past 25 years, few discussed implications a approach for people with disabilities context global Northern societies. This paper argues that by using approach, can recognize multiple and, at times, conflicting ways sustain themselves life. A...

Using feminist disability studies and intersectionality, this article draws upon the ongoing resource extractions in Labrador, Canada to argue for examining local communities relationships as one way understand gender global social, economic environmental crises. The explores how crises Labrador have been constituted maintained around agendas of development, historical current colonial practices a limited constrained international relations with Indigenous nations. lives women their...

By examining the Canadian standards system, and especially work of Standards Association (CSA) related to accessibility, this article explores question: can legislation and/or ensure access inclusion for people with disabilities in area information technologies? And if so, what type is required? It argues that system Canada privileges voices industry while creating a discourse public accountability corporate social responsibility. This paradox leads an undervaluing need addressing issues...

This text explores the problem of identity and political space, analysing in detail impact on state a globalised space.

Female genital mutilation (cutting or surgery) (FGM) is an issue that epitomizes the changing nature of incorporating gender in teaching International Relations. Put simply, by increasing our attention to issues concerns women, like FGM, Relations classrooms and texts we begin recognize importance these study (IR). Yet without paying how reflect on directions Relations, run risk sensationalizing trivializing complicated FGM limiting understanding interplay between gender, race, class,...

To say that the study of international affairs maintains silence in certain areas is no longer radical statement it once was. Since its inception as a recognized discipline or field years between two world wars, relations has been predominantly realist discipline. Over past decade, however, challenges to dominance have come from post-modern theorists, feminists, post-colonial and political economists.1 These suggest part emphasized states exclusion