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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2021] Disability in Late State Socialism. History of Everyday Life in East European Societies
DESCRIPTION:Typically, socialist societies were characterized by both a shorthanded labor force and a fundamental importance of work for the social status of their members. At the same time, the political leadership and the ideologists of the Eastern bloc emphasized that discrimination based on deviations of physical or mental capacities did not exist in socialism. The existence of people with disabilities not conforming to the system’s labor demands, thus, generated specific challenges for socialist societies and often led to a discrepancy between integrative aims on the one hand and at least partly discriminatory realities on the other hand. The proposed session explores how people with disabilities experienced these paradoxes in their everyday lives across various late socialist societies. The perspective of everyday history amends and corrects previous research that predominately focused on sociopolitical and institutional developments and expert discourses while conceiving people with disabilities mostly as objects of the actions and decisions of non-disabled people. Contrarily, the session’s analysis of everyday actions and experiences allows to conceptualize people with disabilities as acting subjects of their own history that were able to reject political, institutional and academic or ideological directives, expectations and suggestions, or integrate them into their everyday lives or even creatively adapt them while simultaneously trying to alter the overarching frameworks of their living conditions. Additionally, the session addresses a region previously neglected by disability history research and offers a comparative and nuanced perspective by focusing on different national cases studies.
Der Beitrag Disability in Late State Socialism. History of Everyday Life in East European Societies erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2021.
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