Disability and mobile citizenship in postsocialist Ukraine / Sarah D. Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Sarah D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities--Ukraine.

People with disabilities.

Human rights--Ukraine.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction : living disability and mobilizing citizenship in postsocialism

A parallel world

Out of history

Disability rights and disability wrongs

Regeneration

Disability, gender, and sexuality in the era of "posts".

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612975813

9781282975811

1282975811

9780253004864

0253004861

OCLC:

707092888

Publisher Number:

2027/heb32481 hdl