02218nam a22002057a 4500999001700000020001800017041000900035082002000044100003200064245014800096260003200244300001100276504005100287520141600338546001301754650005301767650005001820942001201870952013001882  c37839d37839  a9780367686307  aeng-  a362.4048bVAN-N  aVan Toorn, Georgiaeauthor.  aThe new political economy of disability :btransnational networks and individualised funding in the age of neoliberalism / cGeorgia van Toorn.  aLondon :bRoutledge,c2021.  a202p.   aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aThis book addresses the ways in which individualised, market-based models of disability support provision have been mobilised in and across different countries through cross-national investigation of individualised funding (IF) as an object of neoliberal policy mobility.

Combining rich theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives with extensive empirical research, the book provides a timely examination of the policy processes and mechanisms driving the spread of IF amongst countries at the forefront of disability policy reform. It is argued that IF’s mobility is not attributable to neoliberalism alone but to the complex intersections between neoliberal and emancipatory agendas and to the transnational networks that have blended the two agendas in new ways in different institutional contexts. The book shows how disability rights struggles have synchronised with neoliberal agendas, which explains IF’s propensity to move and mutate between different jurisdictions. Featuring first-hand accounts of the activists and advocates engaged in these struggles, the book illuminates the consequences and risks of the dangerous liaisons and political trade-offs that seemed necessary to get individualised funding on the policy agenda for disabled people.

It will be of interest to all scholars and students working in disability studies, social policy, sociology and political science more generally.  aEnglish.  aPeople with disabilitiesxServices forxFinance.  aPeople with disabilities xGovernment policy.  2ddccBK  00104070aNASSDOCbNASSDOCd2023-03-16eOverseasg0.00l0o362.4048 VAN-Np53590r2023-05-31 00:00:00v0.00w2023-05-31yBK