Drawing from long term ethnographic work and practice in Guatemala, this incisive and interdisciplinary text brings in perspectives from critical disability studies, postcolonial theory and critical development to explore the various interactions and dynamics between disability and extreme poverty in rural areas.

Autorentext
Shaun Grech is Director of The Critical Institute (TCI), Malta, Visiting Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and editor-in-chief of the international journal Disability and the Global South (DGS). He is also an activist and practitioner working with disabled people in rural Guatemala.

Inhalt

1. Disability, Poverty and Development: Mapping the Terrain
2. Guatemala: Landscapes
3. Disability in the Spaces of Poverty: Critical Theoretical Introductions
4. Disability and Poverty: Connections and Transitions
5. Disability and Poverty: Connections and Transitions Part 2
6. The Disabled Family: from Survival Struggles to Collective Impoverishment
7. (Un)transforming Structures: The Institutional Framework
8. Final Reflections<B