Understanding the Lived Experiences of Persons with Disabilities in Nine Countries
Active Citizenship and Disability in Europe Volume 2
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Understanding the Lived Experiences of Persons with Disabilities in Nine Countries
Active Citizenship and Disability in Europe Volume 2
About this book
Over the last three decades, a number of reforms have taken place in European social policy with an impact on the opportunities for persons with disabilities to be full and active members of society. The policy reforms have aimed to change the balance between citizens' rights and duties and the opportunities to enjoy choice and autonomy, live in the community and participate in political decision-making processes of importance for one's life.
How do the reforms influence the opportunities to exercise Active Citizenship? This volume presents the findings from the first cross-national comparison of how persons with disabilities reflexively make their way through the world, pursuing their own interests and values. The volume considers how their experiences, views and aspirations regarding participation vary across Europe.
Based on retrospective life-course interviews, the volume examines the scope for agency on the part of persons with disabilities, i.e. the extent to which men and women with disabilities are able to make choices and pursue lives they have reasons to value. Drawing on structuration theory and the capability approach, the volume investigates the opportunities for exercising Active Citizenship among men and women in nine European countries.
The volume identifies the policy implications of a process-oriented and multi-dimensional approach to Active Citizenship in European disability policy. It will appeal to policymakers and policy officials, as well as to researchers and students of disability studies, comparative social policy, international disability law and qualitative research methods.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright page
- Table of Contents
- Lists of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- 1 Changing opportunities for Active Citizenship: understanding the lived experiences of persons with disabilities
- 2 Connecting lived lives and disability policy: Active Citizenship from a life-course perspective
- 3 Life-course interviews on disability and Active Citizenship: collecting and analysing big qualitative data
- 4 Changes and diversity in community living in Europe: the experiences of persons with disabilities
- 5 Diversity and change in the labour market careers of persons with disabilities
- 6 Identity and political participation throughout the life course: the experiences of persons with disabilities in European countries
- 7 Active Citizenship in using accessible technology: the experiences of three generations
- 8 How do persons with psychosocial disabilities experience and practise Active Citizenship in education and work?
- 9 The role of the family in structuring the opportunities for exercising Active Citizenship among persons with disabilities
- 10 Gendering Active Citizenship: experiences of women with disabilities
- 11 Transitions to Active Citizenship for young persons with disabilities: virtuous and vicious cycles of functionings
- 12 Technologies for Active Citizenship and the agency of objects
- 13 Rethinking Active Citizenship: lessons from life-course interviews in nine European countries
- Index