This book examines the role of disability in the right to political and social participation, an act of citizenship that many disabled people do not enjoy.

0.Introduction - Rethinking citizenship and disability. Part One. 1.Exploring the relationship between Citizenship and Universal Design. 2.Veterans from Life: Rehabilitation as Compensation. Interlude One - Life is possible. 3.Rethinking Utopia. Posthumanism, Transhumanism, and Disability. 4.Mad Citizenship. Part Two. 5.Conditions for religious citizenship for people with intellectual disabilities: Cases from Norway and Slovakia. Interlude Two - "Symbiotic citizenship" and a struggle for the right of life as frames for interpreting the 40-day disability protest in the Polish Parliament. 6.The Space of Accessibility and Universal Design. 7.Enabling equal citizenship: Responses from civil society. Interlude Three - Global Disability Summit: How to realize "nothing without us". 8.Universal Human Rights and Universal Design for People with Disabilities: Challenges and Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa. Postscript - Dialogue between Rosemarie Garland-Tomson and Inger Marie Lid.