'Heaven for disabled people': Nationalism and international human rights imagery

Disability and Society

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 93-106

  Kim, Eunjung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Global disability; Human rights; Humanitarianism; Non western countries; Transnational disability studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751632373     PISSN: 09687599     EISSN: 13600508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2011.529670     Document Type: Article

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