Whose identity politics? – Lessons for emerging critical disability geography in Hungary

dc.author.affiliationATOhu
dc.author.mtmtid10005968
dc.contributor.authorTimár, Judit
dc.contributor.authorFabula, Szabolcs
dc.coverage.mtmtmtmthu
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-19T20:08:49Z
dc.date.available2013-12-19T20:08:49Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractIn response to the economic crisis in 2009, the Hungarian government reduced the level of support for the employment of impaired people. The withdrawal of this state support has not only resulted in a massive wave of dismissals, but has also transformed some peripheral settlements into spaces of resistance. The research presented in this paper was conducted to understand the nature of political actions organised in Békés County (one of Hungary’s disadvantaged regions) in order to support the social employment of impaired people. By analysing these political actions we have highlighted certain contradictions of applying the concept of identity politics in a post-socialist context, and the advantages of a combined, biosocial model. On the one hand, the outline of the political and economic situation helped us understand that the analysed social protests only resembled identity politics. In reality, they may even have contributed to the reproduction of ableism. On the other hand, by integrating individual experiences into the social model of disability we could also reveal that according to our impaired interviewees, it is not only their impairments and / or disabilities that render daily life difficult. Their ?rm call for changes in both economic and regional policy suggests that the deliberate and combined use of identity and class politics would be particularly important. Overall, our results suggest that it is essential for scholars in Hungary to engage more strongly in critical disability geography and to thus help the approach take root and develop further.hu
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dc.format.extentfirstpage171hu
dc.format.extentlastpage179hu
dc.format.extentvolume68hu
dc.identifier.citationGeographica Helvetica 68: (3) pp. 171-179. (2013)hu
dc.identifier.issn0016-7312hu
dc.identifier.mtmt-recordid2438707
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11155/373
dc.languageangolhu
dc.relation.ispartofjournalGeographica Helveticahu
dc.relation.ispartofjournalissue3hu
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0) Nevezd meg!-Ne add el!-Ne változtasd!hu
dc.subjectkritikai földrajzhu
dc.subjecthátrányos helyzetű emberhu
dc.subjectföldrajz - Magyarországhu
dc.subjectföldrajz - hátrányos helyzetűekhu
dc.subjectfogyatékossághu
dc.titleWhose identity politics? – Lessons for emerging critical disability geography in Hungaryen
dc.typejournalArticleen
dc.type.descriptionfolyóiratcikkhu
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