Sarah D. Phillips examines the struggles of disabled persons in Ukraine and the other former Soviet states to secure their rights during the tumultuous political, economic, and social reforms of the last two decades. Through participant observation and interviews with disabled Ukrainians across the social spectrum-rights activists, politicians, students, workers, entrepreneurs, athletes, and others-Phillips documents the creative strategies used by people on the margins of postsocialist societies to assert claims to "mobile citizenship." She draws on this rich ethnographic material to argue that public storytelling is a powerful means to expand notions of relatedness, kinship, and social responsibility, and which help shape a more tolerant and inclusive society.
- ISBN10 0253004861
- ISBN13 9780253004864
- Publish Date 26 November 2010 (first published 1 January 2010)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Imprint Indiana University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 319
- Language English