Disability, Happiness and the Welfare State : Finland and the Nordic Model / edited by Hisayo Katsui and Matti T. Laitinen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Katsui, Hisayo, editor.

Laitinen, Matti T., editor.

Series:

Interdisciplinary disability studies.

Interdisciplinary Disability Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities--Finland.

People with disabilities.

Happiness--Finland.

Happiness.

Welfare state--Finland.

Welfare state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, England : Routledge, [2024]

Summary:

"This book looks at disability as an evolving social phenomenon. Disability is created through the interaction between persons with impairments and their environment. Exploring these experiences of persons with disabilities and discussing universality and particularity in our understanding of assumed development and normalcy, it takes Finland, which has been chosen repeatedly as the happiest country in the world as its case-study. Using disability as a critical lens helps to demystify Finland that has the positive reputation of a Welfare State. By identifying different kinds of discrimination against persons with disabilities as well as successful examples of disability inclusion, it shows that when looking Finland from the perspective of persons with disabilities, inequality and poverty have been collective experiences of too many of them. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, sociology, social policy, social work, political science, health and wellbeing studies and Nordic studies more broadly"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The sense of difference : disability and loneliness as emotional and social isolation / Merja Tarvainen

'Disability is so invisible at the University' : disability inclusion/exclusion experiences of students with disabilities at the University of Helsinki / Hisayo Katsui, Matti T. Laitinen, Ira Kuosmanen, Milla Tengstrom and Maija Lindstrom

Being independently dependent : experiences at the intersection of disability and old age in Finland / Salla Era and Teppo Kroger

One step backward? Exploring the outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic for persons with intellectual disabilities in supported and service housing / Sonja Miettinen

The state of inclusion in the state of inclusion? Inclusion as principled practice in Finnish basic education / Juho Honkasilta, Paivi Pihlaja and Henri Pesonen

Media representations of disability / Marjaana Hakala and Hisayo Katsui

Reforming disability services to balance right and needs / Stina Sjöblom and Päivi Nurmi-Koikkalainen

Employment, the Finnish disability pension system, and self-determination of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities / Lotta-Kaisa Mustonen and Hisayo Katsui

The happiness of having a hobby : inclusion of person with disabilities in leisure activities / Eero Saukkonen, Jenni Valmari and Reetta Mietola

Spiral of progress : disability activists' perception of the societal and political position of disabled people in Finland / Pekka Koskinen, Aarno Kauppila and Reetta Mietola

'Second class citizens' : challenges with truth and reconciliation process of deaf people and the sign language community in Finland / Maija Koivisto and Hisayo Katsui

Examining cooperation-based advocacy between government and disability activists in transnationl advocacy networks / Mina C. Mojtahedi and Hisayo Katsui.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

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ISBN:

1-04-000230-7

1-04-000240-4

1-03-268551-4

9781032685519

OCLC:

1419276712