Awards
- Winner of Honorable Mention, 2011 Davis Center Book Prize Honorable Mention, 2011 Heldt Prize, Association for Women in Slavic Studies.
- Winner of Honorable Mention, 2011 Davis Center Book Prize Honorable Mention, 2011 Heldt Prize, Association for Women in Slavic Studies.
Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Sarah D. Phillips
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.476kg
ISBN: 9780253222473
ISBN 10: 0253222478
Pages: 318
Publication Date: 26 November 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Well written and yet accessible, both descriptive and analytical ... a contribution to disability studies, to Soviet and post-socialist ethnography, to the anthropology of disability, and to the study of NGOs and social movements. Devva Kasnitz, University of California, Berkeley A masterfully written ethnography... [Phillips] breaks new ground in offering us a glimpse as to how fundamental concepts of identity, gender, and belonging can inscribe themselves on the body and yet be shattered in a moment with devastating consequences. Catherine Wanner, Pennsylvania State University
Well written and yet accessible, both descriptive and analytical ... a contribution to disability studies, to Soviet and post-socialist ethnography, to the anthropology of disability, and to the study of NGOs and social movements. Devva Kasnitz, University of California, Berkeley A masterfully written ethnography... [Phillips] breaks new ground in offering us a glimpse as to how fundamental concepts of identity, gender, and belonging can inscribe themselves on the body and yet be shattered in a moment with devastating consequences. Catherine Wanner, Pennsylvania State University
Author Information
Sarah D. Phillips is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington and author of Women's Social Activism in the New Ukraine (IUP, 2008).
