Views of disability in Portugal: 'fado' or citizenship?

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2011

Authors

Ema Loja (Author) Other; Maria Emília Costa (Author) FPCEUP; Isabel Menezes (Author) FPCEUP

Journal

Title: DISABILITY & SOCIETY

Vol. 26 No. 5

Pages: 567-581

ISSN: 0968-7599

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Scientific classification

FOS: Medical and Health sciences > Clinical medicine

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-002-YBM

DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2011.589191

Abstract (EN): Disability research in Portugal is scarce and often lacks the perspective of disabled people. This paper tries to bring insights from leaders of disability associations about the community of disabled people in Portugal, the barriers to their politicization and links with disabled identity. It seems that most disabled people get trapped in a tragic paradigmatic vicious cycle due to a system-induced dis-empowerment which is sustained by a dominant individual and remediation model that extends to families, society, policies and politicians. The disabled associative movement has been unable to reach the majority of disabled people. Suggestions are thus made in order to transform this social reality by disseminating politically aware alternative disability paradigms and the possibility of a positive disabled identity, as well as by generating societal involvement in disability as a public matter.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

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No. of pages: 15