Disability and Postsocialism

Mladenov, Teodor

doi:10.4324/9781315306834

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“…Ability feeds institutions such as schools, colleges and workplaces as the most valued of human capacities. Ability is demanded by our postwelfare societies as states draw back, the market moves in and individual consumers/labourers take on the self-contained responsibilities expected of the new global citizens (Mladenov 2015). Our times of neoliberal ableism clearly value cleverness, mobility, flexibility, achievement, emancipation and success (Goodley 2014).…”

Section: Crippled With Anxietymentioning

confidence: 99%

Provocations for Critical Disability Studies

Goodley

Lawthom

Liddiard

et al. 2019

Disability & Society

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This article posits a number of provocations for scholars and researchers engaged with Critical Disability Studies. We summarise some of the analytical twists and turns occurring over the last few years that create a number of questions and concerns. We begin by introducing Critical Disability Studies; describing it as an interdisciplinary field of scholarship building on foundational disability studies theories. Critical Disability Studies scholarship is being produced at an exponential rate and we assert that we need to take pause for thought. We lay out five provocations to encourage reflection and debate: what is the purpose of Critical Disability Studies; how inclusive is Critical Disability Studies; is disability the object or subject of studies; what matters or gets said about disability; and how can we attend to disability and ability? We conclude by making a case for a reflexive and politicised Critical Disability Studies.

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Section: Crippled With Anxietymentioning

confidence: 99%

Provocations for Critical Disability Studies

Goodley

Lawthom

Liddiard

et al. 2019

Disability & Society

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125

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“…Yet interest in it has been growing (e.g. Holland, 2003, 2008; Mladenov, 2009, 2018; Mussida and Sciulli, 2016; Tobis, 2000), even if research is often conducted by scholars based at British or U.S. universities. Disability studies are not an established discipline; however, in recent years, they have inspired debates within social sciences and humanities (e.g., Kolářová, 2014; Kolářová and Wiedlack, 2016; Procházková and Vaďurová, 2019; Synek, 2018), with some publications available in Czech (Osman and Pospíšilová, 2016; Porkertová, 2019; Synek et al, 2019).…”

Section: The Czech Republic: Disability As Personal Responsibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“Almost Equal”: Confronting Norms and Normality in Experiencing Visual Disability

Porkertová

2020

Critical Sociology

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This article examines the everyday experience of visually disabled people with norms and normality and confronts it with three approaches discussed in disability studies: (i) the medical model, (ii) the social model, and (iii) critical disability studies. The most available model to the people in the study, as well as the most widespread approach in Czech society, is the medical model. However, the text shows that although other approaches are rather marginal, their logic is present in the everyday experience of the communication partners in the research. They can espouse the rigid, medical model, while, at the same time, confronting the construction of norms that both the social model and critical disability studies defy. This finding reveals both the normative and subversive character of disability, manifested in visually impaired experience.

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“…The impact of the state socialist approach of segregated provision on disabled people's social standing and participation was pernicious (Mladenov 2018). According to Tobis (2000, 10-11), the legacy of state socialist residential care in the postsocialist region of CEE and the former Soviet Union included 5 500 large residential care facilities hosting approximately 820 000 children with and without impairments, in addition to 1 392 care homes for disabled adults and old people in the former Soviet Union alone (data for institutionalisation of disabled adults in CEE is not provided).…”

Section: State Socialist Legacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Critique of deinstitutionalisation in postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe

Mladenov

Petri

2019

Disability & Society

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In this paper, we explore critically deinstitutionalisation reform, focusing specifically on the postsocialist region of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). We argue that deinstitutionalisation in postsocialist CEE has generated re-institutionalising outcomes, including renovation of existing institutions and/or creation of new, smaller settings that have nevertheless reproduced key features of institutional life. To explain these trends, we first consider the historical background of the reform, highlighting the legacy of state socialism and the effects of postsocialist neoliberalisation. We then discuss the impact of 'external' drivers of deinstitutionalisation in CEE, particularly the European Union and its funding, as well as human rights discourses incorporated in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The analysis is supported by looking at the current situation in Hungary and Bulgaria through recent reports by local civil society organisations. In conclusion, we propose some definitional tactics for redirecting existing resources towards genuine community-based services.

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Disability and Postsocialism

Cited by 19 publications

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