Citizenship, Rights and Persons with Disabilities in India
The neo-liberal discourse of rights focuses on rights-based legislations and empowers citizens to place claims on the state. The push toward a rights-based approach in India by disability activists sought to shift the underlying power dynamic between citizens and the state through legislation. Howev...
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Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud
2022-05-01
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| description | The neo-liberal discourse of rights focuses on rights-based legislations and empowers citizens to place claims on the state. The push toward a rights-based approach in India by disability activists sought to shift the underlying power dynamic between citizens and the state through legislation. However, such rights-based discourses underplay or negate intra-group power politics that influence claims to rights and entitlements. This paper attempts to explore the ways in which disability groups in India engaged with the concept of citizenship in the debates prior to the passage of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016. As citizenship creates whole categories of people who are subject to the government’s authority, an attempt will be made to see how actors within the rights movements interacted among themselves and with the state, to ensure welfare provisions as well as citizenship rights for different groups of people from different impairment categories. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-02421351a1294ae586dd4d64c5b434042022-12-22T00:56:26ZengCentre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du SudSouth Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal1960-60602022-05-01Citizenship, Rights and Persons with Disabilities in IndiaNandini GhoshThe neo-liberal discourse of rights focuses on rights-based legislations and empowers citizens to place claims on the state. The push toward a rights-based approach in India by disability activists sought to shift the underlying power dynamic between citizens and the state through legislation. However, such rights-based discourses underplay or negate intra-group power politics that influence claims to rights and entitlements. This paper attempts to explore the ways in which disability groups in India engaged with the concept of citizenship in the debates prior to the passage of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016. As citizenship creates whole categories of people who are subject to the government’s authority, an attempt will be made to see how actors within the rights movements interacted among themselves and with the state, to ensure welfare provisions as well as citizenship rights for different groups of people from different impairment categories.http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/7924disability rightslawcitizenshippowerlegal capacity |
| spellingShingle | Nandini Ghosh Citizenship, Rights and Persons with Disabilities in India South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal disability rights law citizenship power legal capacity |
| title | Citizenship, Rights and Persons with Disabilities in India |
| title_full | Citizenship, Rights and Persons with Disabilities in India |
| title_fullStr | Citizenship, Rights and Persons with Disabilities in India |
| title_full_unstemmed | Citizenship, Rights and Persons with Disabilities in India |
| title_short | Citizenship, Rights and Persons with Disabilities in India |
| title_sort | citizenship rights and persons with disabilities in india |
| topic | disability rights law citizenship power legal capacity |
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