Sökning: "disability theory"

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  1. 1. Creative Disability Classification Systems : The case of Greece, 1990-2015

    Författare :Antonia Pavli; Vasilis Galis; Berth Danermark; Myriam Winance; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; classification system; statistics; medicalization; disability movement; disability fraud; corporatism; economic crisis; STS; disability theory; Handikappvetenskap; Disability Science;

    Sammanfattning : Disability classification systems belong to the core of states’ social/disability policies through which persons with disabilities are classified as eligible or ineligible for having access to disability allowances. The study of disability classification systems has stimulated the interest of several scholars from the broader area of disability studies. LÄS MER

  3. 2. After Inclusion : Intellectual Disability as Biopolitics

    Författare :Niklas Altermark; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; intellectual disability; disability studies; biopolitics; Foucault; Butler; crip theory; inclusion; inclusion exclusion;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines contemporary politics targeting people with intellectual disabilities. Since this group first emerged, under labels such as ‘idiocy’ and ‘mental deficiency’, around the turn of the 20th century, its members have been seen as lacking the capacities necessary for citizenship and full societal belonging. LÄS MER

  4. 3. I mänsklighetens namn : En etnologisk studie av ett svenskt biståndsprojekt i Rumänien

    Författare :Agnes Ers; Mats Lindqvist; Karin Salomonsson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; humanizing processes; normality; development aid; NGO; Romania; Europe; children; orphanages; disability; postcolonial theory; poststructuralist theory; gift exchange; deserving-undeserving poor; gender construction; Ethnology; Etnologi;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is an analysis of observations among, and interviews with, Romanian and Swedish employees at a Swedish development aid project in Romania. The aim has been to study the categories of ‘humanity’: how the notions of the ‘human(e)’ and the ‘inhuman(e)’ were created in the context of the project. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Stochastic modelling in disability insurance

    Författare :Björn Löfdahl; Boualem Djehiche; Mogens Steffensen; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of two papers related to the stochastic modellingof disability insurance. In the first paper, we propose a stochastic semi-Markovian framework for disability modelling in a multi-period discrete-time setting. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Topics in life and disability insurance

    Författare :Björn Löfdahl Grelsson; Boualem Djehiche; Jostein Paulsen; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Tillämpad matematik och beräkningsmatematik; Applied and Computational Mathematics;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of five papers, presented in Chapters A-E, on topics in life and disability insurance. It is naturally divided into two parts, where papers A and B discuss disability rates estimation based on historical claims data, and papers C-E discuss claims reserving, risk management and insurer solvency. LÄS MER