Disability in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

There are over thirty million disabled people in Russia and Eastern Europe, yet their voices are rarely heard in scholarly studies of life and well-being in the region. 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. Discussions of disability in culture and society highlight the broader conditions in which disabled people must build their identities and well-being whilst in-depth biographical profiles outline what living with disabilities in the region is like. Chapters on policy interventions, including international influences, examine recent reforms and the difficulties of implementing inclusive, community-based care. The book will be of interest both to regional specialists, for whom well-being, equality and human rights are crucial concerns, and to scholars of disability and social policy internationally.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781138687400
• ISBN-10: 1138687405
• Artikelnr.: 47127111

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