Disability in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

History, policy and everyday life
Herausgeber: Rasell, Michael; Iarskaia-Smirnova, Elena

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Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together new research by internationally recognised local and non-native scholars in a range of countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It covers, historically, the origins of legacies that continue to affect well-being and policy in the region today, discusses disability in culture and society, highlighting the broader conditions that construct disability and in which disabled people must build their identities and well-being.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 611g
• ISBN-13: 9780415610964
• ISBN-10: 0415610966
• Artikelnr.: 31300907

Autorenporträt

Michael Rasell is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Social Care at the University of Lincoln, UK. Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova is a Professor in the Department of General Sociology at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Conceptualising Disability in Eastern Europe and the Former
Soviet Union 1. Soviet Style Welfare: The disabled soldiers of the Great
Patriotic War 2. Prosthetic Promise and Potemkin Limbs in Late-Stalinist
Russia 3. Heroes and Spongers: The iconography of disability in Soviet
poster and film 4. Between Disabling Disorders and Mundane Nervousness:
Representations of psychiatric patients and their distress in soviet and
post-soviet Latvia 5. Living with a Disability in Hungary: Reconstructing
the narratives of disabled students 6. Citizens or 'Dead Souls?' An
anthropological perspective on disability and citizenship in post-Soviet
Ukraine 7. Breaking the Silence: Disability and sexuality in contemporary
Bulgaria 8. 'Those who do not Work Shall not Eat!' A comparative
perspective on the ideology of work within Eastern European disability
discourses 9. The Challenges of Operationalizing a Human Rights Approach to
Disability in Central Asia 10. The Complex Role of Non-governmental
Organisations in the Advancing the Inclusion of Children with Disabilities
in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Bulgaria 11. Lost in Transition: Missed
opportunities for reforming disabled children's education in Armenia,
Azerbaijan and Georgia