The New Political Economy of Disability - 9780367483050

Taylor & Francis

The New Political Economy of DisabilityTransnational Networks and Individualised Funding in the Age of Neoliberalism\nAuthor(s): Georgia van Toorn\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367483050, 978-0367483050\nSynopsis\nThis 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.\n\nCombining 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 IFs mobility is not attributable to neoliberalism alone but to the complex intersections between neoliberal and emancipatory agendas and to the transnat.