Sökning: "disability activism"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden disability activism.
1. This is not citizenship. Analysing the claims of disability activists in Sweden
Sammanfattning : This dissertation aims to contribute to sociology, citizenship studies and disability studies by responding to T.H. Marshall’s ([1950]1992) invitation to examine the development of equal citizenship in a context of structural inequality, and Jenkins’ (1991) call to consider disability as a dimension of social stratification. LÄS MER
2. ”Gå eller rulla – Alla vill knulla!” : Funktionsrättsaktivism i nyliberala landskap
Sammanfattning : This study follows groups in Sweden that are involved in a political struggle to change norms regarding sexuality and disability. The groups are mostly connected to the disability movement or the movement of sexual politics. LÄS MER
3. Which Entitlements and for Whom? The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Ideological Antecedents
Sammanfattning : The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), adopted by the UN in 2006, represents the coming of age of a human rights approach to disability. In doing so, it provides answers to the questions what ‘disability’ is, who ‘persons with disabilities’ are and what entitlements are legitimate and relevant in relation to ‘disability’. LÄS MER
4. Experiences, networks and uncertainty : parenting a child who uses a cochlear implant
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation project is to describe the ways people experience parenting a deaf child who uses a cochlear implant. Within a framework of social science studies of disability this is done by combining approaches using ethnographic and netnographic methods of participant observation with an interview study. LÄS MER
5. Det högkänsliga subjektets tillblivelse : Diskursiva praktiker om identitet, förmåga och funktionsvariation
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines discursive practices about the highly sensitive person (HSP) from the perspective of knowledge production, categorization and community formation. In contemporary Sweden it has become increasingly common to talk about oneself in terms of being constituted in a particular way, e.g. LÄS MER