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Understanding the Lived Experiences of Persons with Disabilities in Nine Countries : Active Citizenship and Disability in Europe Volume 2.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2017Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (249 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317227465
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.4094
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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.
Summary: Presenting research from the first major comparative and cross-national study of active citizenship and disability in Europe, this book analyses the consequences of ongoing changes in Europe - what opportunities do persons with disabilities have to exercise Active Citizenship? Volume 2 analyses how men and women with disabilities reflexively make their way through the world, pursuing their own interests and values.
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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.

Presenting research from the first major comparative and cross-national study of active citizenship and disability in Europe, this book analyses the consequences of ongoing changes in Europe - what opportunities do persons with disabilities have to exercise Active Citizenship? Volume 2 analyses how men and women with disabilities reflexively make their way through the world, pursuing their own interests and values.

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