Disability and Citizenship Studies

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-46726-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 514 g

Reihe: Interdisciplinary Disability Studies

Focusing on the case of disability, this book examines what happens when previously marginalised individuals obtain the legal recognition of their equal citizenship rights but cannot fully enjoy these rights because of structural inequality.

Bringing together disability and citizenship studies, it explores an original conceptualisation of disability as a distinct social division and approaches citizenship as a developing institution. In addition to providing innovative theoretical perspectives on citizenship and disability, this book is grounded in the empirical analysis of the claims of disability activists in Sweden. Drawing on a wide range of blog posts and debate articles, it sheds light upon the inequality and domination faced by disabled people in Sweden and underlines the disability activists’ proactive ideas and solutions for constructing a more equal citizenship.

This book will be of interest to scholars, activists and policymakers in the fields of disability, citizenship, social inequality, human rights, politics, activism, social welfare and sociology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sépulchre, Marie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. "This is not citizenship". 2. Exploring the construction of citizenship in Sweden. 3. Understanding disability and disability activism. 4. Analysing the claims of disability activists in Sweden. 5. What problems do the disability activists highlight? 6. What solutions to the disability activists propose? 7. Conclusion: Understanding the disability activists’ claims through the lens of citizenship.

Über Autor(innen)

Marie Sépulchre is a SYLFF (Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund) postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Sociology at Uppsala University, Sweden, and a visiting fellow at the Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research at the University of Glasgow, UK.