Disability in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union : history, policy and everyday life /: history, policy and everyday life. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michael Rasell and Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova.
• Editors: Rasell, Michael; I︠A︡rskai︠a︡-Smirnova, Elena
• Contents: Conceptualising disability in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union / Michael Rasell and Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova -- Soviet style welfare: the disabled soldiers of the Great Patriotic War / Beate Fieseler -- Prosthetic promise and Potemkin limbs in late-Stalinist Russia / Frances Bernstein -- Heroes and spongers: The iconography of disability in Soviet poster and film / Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova and Pavel Romanov -- Between disabling disorders and mundane nervousness: representations of psychiatric patients and their distress in Soviet and post-Soviet Latvia / Agita Luse and Daiga Kamerade -- Living with a disability in Hungary: reconstructing the narratives of disabled students / Eszter Gábor -- Citizens or "dead souls"? : an anthropological perspective on disability and citizenship in post-Soviet Ukraine / Sarah Phillips -- Breaking the silence: disability and sexuality in contemporary Bulgaria / Teodor Mladenov -- "Those who do not work shall not eat!" : a comparative perspective on the ideology of work within Eastern European disability discourses / Darja Zavirek -- The challenges of operationalizing a human rights approach to disability in Central Asia / Hisayo Katsui -- The complex role of non-governmental organisations in the advancing the inclusion of children with disabilities in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Bulgaria / Majda Becirevic and Monica Dowling -- Lost in transition: missed opportunities for reforming disabled children's education in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia / Viktoria Shmidt.
• Publisher Details: New York : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (pages)
• Subjects: 362.40947; People with disabilities -- Former Soviet republics; People with disabilities -- Europe, Eastern; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare; People with disabilities; Europe, Eastern; Soviet Union -- Former Soviet republics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315866932; 1315866935; 9781317962199; 1317962192; 1306174511; 9781306174510
• Related ISBNs: 9780415610964; 0415610966
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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