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

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Group Author: Rasell, Michael; I︠A︡rskai︠a︡-Smirnova, Elena
Published: Routledge,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2014.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies ; 94
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Carrier Form: xvii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780415610964 (hardback) :
0415610966 (hardback)
Index Number: HV1559
CLC: C913.69
Call Number: C913.69/D611-9
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.