Re-Imagining Social Change: Disability Human Rights Activism in Neoliberal Democracies. Poland and the UK as Case Studies.

重新想象社会变革：新自由主义民主国家的残疾人权活动。

• 批准号: ES/Y008170/1
• 负责人: Magdalena Szarota
• 金额: $ 13.81万
• 依托单位: Lancaster University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FY008170%2F1
• 关键词: Re; Imagining; Social; Change; Disability

Today, in the international disabled people's movement, disability is understood in social rather than in medical terms. Under this concept, disability does not equal a bodily impairment of, or other dysfunction in, a person. Instead disability is a failure of non-disabled society to provide disabled people with assistance required for their normal societal participation. The radical shift in thinking about disability originated from the disabled people's movement in 1970s Britain, especially from the political struggle of UPIAS (the Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation) for disabled people's rights. A theoretical reflection on UPIAS' claims led to emergence of a new academic discipline, the Disability Studies, and to the formulation of the social model of disability.Despite these origins of the Copernican shift in thinking about disability, there is a surprising tendency among Disability Studies scholars not to engage in a theoretical exploration of the activism of disabled people's organisations. In contrast to this, my PhD is about scholarly 'making sense' of the understandings of disability emerging from the women-led disability activism in Poland. Results show that disability discourse of my case study organisations is rich, nuanced and conceptually insightful. For example, it sheds a new 'activist' light on the most recent fundamental debate in Disability Studies, whether the social model of disability has been replaced by a new disability model that underpins the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD). UN CRPD is a major legal instrument of disability human rights protection adopted by 186 countries, including the UK and Poland.My thesis also illuminates the meaning of feminist values for the women-led disability activism. It shows that feminism can merge with disability activism and these both may be elements of an even broader social justice agenda of a disability organisation. This finding is significant as it challenges a widespread view that disabled people's political aspirations are limited to disability discrimination. Rarely are they thought of as contributions to general political debates. While I focused on Polish women-led disability organisations, my PhD's approach and findings have broader relevance for post-socialist and international Disability Studies, including British Disability Studies. The thesis also enriches feminist studies and human rights scholarship.In the fellowship, the contributions of my PhD will be disseminated to interdisciplinary academic audiences: Disability Studies, Gender Studies and human rights scholars. This will be achieved through publications in leading academic journals and through panel(s) I will organize. I will also use and further expand my existing networks among activists and policy-makers to ensure that my research has impact on their work for the realization of disability human rights and gender equality. Furthermore, my research has already been presented to general public in form of op-eds and interviews. I will continue to engage with audiences in this way during the fellowship. Finally, I will extend my research to the UK's women-led disability organisations. Based on my PhD and these new findings, I will be able to develop a comparative perspective on how Polish and British women-led disability organisations understand general disability discrimination and intersectional discrimination against disabled women; how they think about broader social change; what place feminism has in their activism. Upon this conceptual and empirical foundation, I will develop a book proposal.The fellowship will also allow me to gather experience in teaching at a British university. Other than building up a track record of impactful publications, this will also further my goal to establish myself as a Disability Studies scholar committed to building bridges between disability academic, activist and policymaking circles.

如今，在国际残疾人的运动中，在社会而不是医学术语中可以理解残疾。在这个概念下，残疾不等于一个人的身体损害或其他功能障碍。取而代之的是，残疾是非贫困社会未能为残疾人提供正常社会参与所需的帮助。关于残疾人的思考的根本转变起源于1970年代的残疾人运动，尤其是来自UPIA的政治斗争（对隔离的物理障碍的联盟）对残疾人的权利。对UPIAS主张的理论反思导致了一项新的学科，残疾研究和社会残疾社会模式的表述。与此相反，我的博士学位是关于从波兰以女性主导的残疾行动主义而出现的对残疾的理解的“理解”。结果表明，我的案例研究组织的残疾话语是丰富，细微差别且在概念上有见地的。例如，它为残疾研究的最新基本辩论提供了一个新的“激进主义者”，是否已被一种新的残疾模型取代，该模型是构成《联合国残疾人权利公约》（UN CRPD）的《联合国公约》的基础。联合国CRPD是包括英国和波兰在内的186个国家采用的残疾人权保护的主要法律文书。它表明，女权主义可以与残疾行动主义融合，这两个都可能是残疾组织的更广泛社会正义议程的要素。这一发现很重要，因为它挑战了一种普遍的看法，即残疾人的政治愿望仅限于残疾歧视。他们很少被认为是对一般政治辩论的贡献。尽管我专注于波兰女性领导的残疾组织，但我的博士学位和发现与包括英国残疾研究在内的后社会主义和国际残疾研究更广泛的意义。该论文还丰富了女权主义研究和人权学术奖学金。在奖学金中，我的博士学位的贡献将被传播到跨学科的学术受众：残疾研究，性别研究和人权学者。这将通过领先的学术期刊和我将组织的小组的出版物来实现。我还将在激进主义者和政策制定者之间使用并进一步扩展我的现有网络，以确保我的研究影响他们的工作，以实现残疾人权和性别平等。此外，我的研究已经以专栏和访谈的形式向公众提交。在奖学金期间，我将继续以这种方式与观众互动。最后，我将把研究扩展到英国领导的残疾组织。根据我的博士学位和这些新发现，我将能够对波兰和英国女性主导的残疾组织如何理解一般残疾歧视和对残疾妇女的交叉歧视的比较观点；他们如何看待更广泛的社会变革；女权主义在其行动主义中有什么地方。根据这个概念和经验的基础，我将制定一项书籍建议。该研究金还可以使我能够在一所英国大学获得教学经验。除了建立有影响力的出版物的往绩之外，这也将进一步将自己确立为残疾研究学者，致力于在残疾学术，激进主义者和决策圈之间建立桥梁。