Disability, Happiness and the Welfare State

Name: Disability, Happiness and the Welfare State
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Finland and the Nordic Model

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Interdisciplinary Disability Studies

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This book looks at disability as an evolving social phenomenon. Disability is created through the interaction between persons with impairments and their environment. Exploring these experiences of persons with disabilities and discussing universality and particularity in our understanding of assumed development and normalcy, it takes Finland, which has been chosen repeatedly as the happiest country in the world as its case- study. Using disability as a critical lens helps to demystify Finland that has the positive reputation of a Welfare State. By identifying different kinds of discrimination against persons with disabilities as well as successful examples of disability inclusion, it shows that when looking Finland from the perspective of persons with disabilities, inequality and poverty have been collective experiences of too many of them. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, sociology, social policy, social work, political science, health and well-being studies and Nordic studies more broadly.

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Hisayo Katsui is Professor in Disability Studies at the University of Helsinki. She is a permanent expert to the Finnish Advisory Board for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and a board member of the Nordic Network of Disability Research and the Finnish Society for Disability Research. Her research interests are disability rights realisation in practice and participatory research approaches. Matti T. Laitinen is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki. His research interests lie in disability, inclusive education and the life stories of persons with disabilities. Laitinen identifies as a disabled person and he has been involved in the disability right movement since 1987.

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March 26th, 2024

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Tertiary Education (US: College)

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Edited by Hisayo Katsui
Edited by Matti T. Laitinen

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11 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white

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276

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Interdisciplinary Disability Studies

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9781032645049

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38199906

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