Making the Invisible Visible: Disability Inclusive Development in Solomon Islands |
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Authors: | Alexandra Gartrell Megan G. Jennaway Lenore Manderson Naomi Godden |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia;2. School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand, Witwatersrand, South Africa;3. Gender, Leadership and Social Sustainability Research Unit, Monash Univeristy, Melbourne, Australia |
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Abstract: | International and national level disability inclusive discourse, policy and strategy typically render invisible the institutional structures, political economies and socio-cultural power relations that constitute the lived experience of disability. The lack of robust information on disability extends these theoretical blind spots to the absence of disability in official statistics, political dialogue and social policy. Empirically grounded, inclusive research that recognises disability as embedded in globalised political economies and culturally specific power relations is required to address the theoretical, statistical and programmatic invisibility of disability. Such research will provide a solid knowledge base on which to build effective inclusive interventions. |
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