Blindness in South and East Asia: Using History to Inform Development

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction 9
4. Concepts and Beliefs About Disability in Various Local Contexts
5. Stigma or Sacredness. Notes on Dealing with Disability in an Andean Culture 27
6. Everyone Has Something to Give. Living with Disability in Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico 44
7. Defining the Role of Religion and Spirituality in the Lives of Persons with Disability in the Fatick Region, Senegal, and the Mono Region, Benin 58
8. Folklore Based Analysis for a Culture-Specific Concept of Inclusive Education 78
9. Blindness in South and East Asia: Using History to Inform Development 88
10. Some Cultural Representations of Disability in Jordan: Concepts and Beliefs 102
11. Bio-Medical versus Indigenous Approaches to Disability 114
12. The Use of Non-Western Approaches for Special Education in the Western World. A Cross-Cultural Approach 122
13. Concepts of Disability with Regard to Migrants
14. Meanings of Disability for Culturally Diverse and Immigrant Families of Children with Disabilities 135
15. Social Welfare or Socio-Political Entitlement: Disabled People Caught between the Poles of Their Tunisian Origin and Acculturative Pressures 146
16. The Problem of Special-Educational Advancement of Children from Migrant Families – Integrative Help in the Regular Schools to Prevent Multiple Processes of Social Separation 154
17. Disability and Knowledge Transfer in the Field of Development Cooperation
18. Local Knowledge and International Collaboration in Disability Programs 169
19. Possibilities for Working with Cultural Knowledge in the Rehabilitation of Mine Victims in Luena, Angola 178
20. Socio-Cultural Representation of Disability in Target Groups of Rehabilitation Work: Examples from Handicap International Projects 192
21. Incorporation of Knowledge of Social and Cultural Factors in the Practice of Rehabilitation Projects 199
22. The Importance of Cultural Context in Training for CBR and Other Community Disability Services 208
23. Western(ised) Personnel from the Practice of Rehabilitation Projects versus Local Cultures 222
24. Differing Perceptions of the Principle of Parent Participation: Implications for Asian Families of Children with Disabilities 234
25. Formal Handling Routines. Child Rearing Practices in Jamaica and Their Relevance to Rehabilitation Work 242
26. “Nothing about us without us.” Case Studies of Self-Help Movements
27. Meeting Women’s Needs. Women and Girls with Disabilities in the Practice of Rehabilitation Projects 251
28. “We don’t need to be cured first in order to live”: Self-Help in Oaxaca, Mexico (An Account of an Interviw with German Perez Cruz) 268
29. The Pan-African Movement of People with Disabilities 274
30. Self-Determined Living in Germany 277
31. Towards New Approaches in the Study of Disability in an Intercultural Framework
32. General Issues in Research on Local Concepts and Beliefs about Disability 285
33. Developing Local Concepts of Disability: Cultural Theory and Research Prospects 297
34. Towards a Methodology for Dis-ability Research among Ethno-Cultural Minorities 303
35. Disability Research in Cultural Contexts: Beyond Methods and Techniques 314
36. Some Thoughts on Definitions and a Methodology of Cross-Cultural Research Pertaining to Disability 323
37. Issues of Disability Assessment in War Zones 332
38. The Participatory Rapid Appraisal Method of Research on Cultural Representations of Disability in Jordan 343
39. Using Historical Anthropology to Think Disability 352
40. Authors 381