Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine [Paperback]

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 spectrumrights activists, politicians, students, workers, entrepreneurs, athletes, and othersPhillips 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.

Sarah D. Phillips is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington and author of Womens Social Activism in the New Ukraine (IUP, 2008).

[This] entire study is a much-needed and welcome addition to the postsocialist literature and would fit well in anthropology, as well as interdisciplinary, courses on Russian and Eastern European studies.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Living Disability and Mobilizing Citizenship in Postsocialism
1. A Parallel World
2. Out of History
3. Disability Rights and Disability Wrongs
4. Regeneration
5. Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in the Era of Posts
Conclusion
Appendix I: Notes on Terminology and Methods
Appendix II: List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Honorable Mention, 2011 Davis Center Book Prize Honorable Mention, 2011 Heldt Prize, Association for Women in Slavic StudiesThis ethnography is quite accessible and would be appropriate for courses in applied, medical, and development anthropology, anthropology of globalization and cultural change, as well as to historians of disability, and gender studies scholars and students.Well written and yet accessible, both descriptive and analyticalSÒ