This book offers insights into the interconnected disability rights community and its current political efforts. It examines how disability rights activism shapes a global power structure of disability-related knowledge, influencing our categorization and transformation of this knowledge. By exploring the relationship between the practical moral knowledge of international advocates and the formal disability rights norms established in treaties like the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the book highlights the critical stance of the disability rights movement toward oversimplified narratives. Additionally, it emphasizes the need for cross-cultural advocacy to present a unified image, which is essential for maintaining global legitimacy among stakeholders and a shared meta-code that defines its objectives. As an epistemic community, disability rights advocates both utilize and challenge the authority of international human rights frameworks and their language. The book demonstrates that these advocates play a significant role in creating a global culture that standardizes perceptions of moral and legal 'right' and 'wrong,' ultimately influencing both individual bodies and the body politic. This work will appeal to scholars and students in disability studies, sociology of knowledge, legal and linguistic anthropology, social inequality, and social movements.
