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4. The political participation of disabled people in Europe: rights, accessibility and representation

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Waddington, Lisa, Priestley, Mark, Stickings, Martha, Loja, Ema, Grammenos, Stefannos, Lawson, Anna, Fredriksdottir, Bjarney, RS: FdR Europees Publiekrecht, RS: FdR Rechten van de Mens, International and European Law, RS: FdR IC Integratie, RS: FdR - CERiM, RS: FDR - MACIMIDE, and RS: FdR Institute MCEL

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Political participation, Disability, Social indicators, ENGAGEMENT, Accessibility, EFFICACY, ETHNICITY, MOVEMENT, ELECTION, CITIZENSHIP, Human rights, DISABILITIES, TURNOUT, European Union, PRINCIPLE, INTERNET
Abstract

This paper provides the first systematic cross-national assessment of disabled people's electoral and political participation, based on research in the 28 Member States of the European Union and in the context of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. A mixed methods approach included policy analysis, information requests to national experts and secondary analysis of European survey data. The evidence populated indicators which suggest four lines of action: (a) lifting legal and administrative barriers; (b) raising awareness; (c) making political participation more accessible; (c) expanding participation opportunities in public life. Civil society organizations as well as public institutions have an important role to play as change agents in this regard. (c) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Published
2016

8. Disability, embodiment and ableism: stories of resistance.

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Loja, Ema, Costa, Maria Emília, Hughes, Bill, and Menezes, Isabel

Subjects
*ATTITUDE (Psychology), *CONTENT analysis, *INTERVIEWING, *RESEARCH methodology, *SOUND recordings, *QUALITATIVE research, *JUDGMENT sampling, *DISABILITIES, PSYCHOLOGY of People with disabilities
Abstract

Non-disabled responses to visible impairment embody either social invisibility or over-attentiveness. The subjective and inter-subjective experiences of impaired bodies and intersubjective encounters within society are important aspects of disablement and the construction of a disabled identity. Impairment is read by and influences the social structure of ableism. This paper attempts to understand how ableist discourses about impaired bodies have impacted on and been resisted by disabled people and how embodiment is related to identity. In pursuit of these aims, a qualitative study was conducted with seven people who have visible physical impairments. The results indicate that disabled embodiment is produced and experienced within an ableist context that mobilizes the charitable gaze and the medical model to signify impaired bodies at the expense of the recognition of disabled identity. In order to deconstruct ableism and to recognize and respect the value of the disabled identity, a politics of recognition is required. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2013
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