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almahu_9949293403202882
Format:
1 online resource (319 pages)
ISBN:
9780253004864
Content:
Sarah D. Phillips examines the struggles of disabled persons in Ukraine and the other former Soviet states to secure their rights during the tumultuous political, economic, and social reforms of the last two decades. Through participant observation and interviews with disabled Ukrainians across the social spectrum -- rights activists, politicians, students, workers, entrepreneurs, athletes, and others -- Phillips documents the creative strategies used by people on the margins of postsocialist societies to assert claims to "mobile citizenship." She draws on this rich ethnographic material to argue that public storytelling is a powerful means to expand notions of relatedness, kinship, and social responsibility, and which help shape a more tolerant and inclusive society.
Note:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- list of Abbreviations -- Map -- Introduction: Living Disability and Mobilizing Citizenship in Postsocialism -- 1. A Parallel World -- 2. Out of History -- 3. Disability Rights and Disability Wrongs -- 4. Regeneration -- 5. Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in the Era of "Posts" -- Conclusion -- Notes on Terminology and Methods -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Phillips, Sarah D. Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine Bloomington : Indiana University Press,c2010 ISBN 9780253355393
Language:
English
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