The Routledge International Handbook of Children’s Rights and Disability

This handbook provides authoritative and cutting-edge analyses of various aspects of the rights and lives of disabled children around the world.

Taking the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) as conceptual frameworks, this work appraises the current state of affairs concerning the rights of disabled children across different stages of childhood, different life domains, and different socio-cultural contexts.

The book is divided into four sections:

• Legislation and Policy
• Children’s Voice
• The Life Course in Childhood
• Life Domains in Childhood

Comprised of 37 newly commissioned chapters featuring analyses of UN documents and case studies from Australia, Brazil, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Vanuatu, its multidisciplinary approach reflects the complexities of the lives of disabled children and the multifarious nature of the strategies needed to ensure their rights are upheld.

It will be of interest to researchers and students working in disability studies, education, allied health, law, philosophy, play studies, social policy, and the sociology of childhood. It will also be a valuable resource for professionals/practitioners, allowing them to consider future directions for ensuring that disabled children’s rights are realised and their well-being and dignity are assured.

Angharad E. Beckett is Professor of Political Sociology and Social Inclusion and Director of Research and Innovation at the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds. She is a member of the interdisciplinary Centre for Disability Studies at the University, where she was for many years a joint Director. Her research interests include disability theory and politics, the resistance practices of the disabled people’s movement, inclusive education, and play/leisure for disabled children and young people. She teaches Disability Studies at undergraduate and postgraduate level and has supervised many doctoral students in this field. She founded and is Co-Chair of the Editorial Executive for the open-access International Journal of Disability and Social Justice.

Anne-Marie Callus is Associate Professor in the Department of Disability Studies, Faculty for Social Wellbeing, University of Malta. She lectures, researches, and has published on disability rights, empowerment of persons with intellectual disability, inclusive education and disabled children’s rights, as well as cultural representations of persons with disability. She is Deputy Editor of Disability & Society.