Authors: Teodor Mladenov and Ciara Siobhan Brennan.
Overview
The global COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor (COVID-19 DRM) has revealed major injustices suffered by disabled people around the world during the first stage of the pan-demic, including enhanced institutionalisation, breakdown of essential services in the community, multiplication of intersectional harms, and denial of access to healthcare. In this paper, we present an overview of the COVID-19 DRM and its findings. We also offer a disability studies response by making recourse to the social model of disability, inde-pendent living philosophy, and analyses of biopolitics. We argue that the COVID-19 DRM illuminates systemic flaws that predate the pandemic, and that it is these flaws that need to be addressed in post-pandemic efforts at reconstruction.
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