This article analyses a theatre, Olla, which has actors with intellectual disabilities. Using qualitative methods the aims are to analyse how Olla relates to institutional environments and to analyse the social meaning of acting. The results are based on two empirical research projects using three qualitative methods: participant observation; open, non-structured qualitative interviews with both the leaders and the actors; and research circles with the actors. The results were analysed from a neo-institutional and a sub-cultural perspective. The results show that, at an organizational level, Olla is connected to the two different logics, which generate a certain ambivalence in relation to the surrounding environment. Legitimacy is rooted in a duality between process and product, art and therapy. However, the process at hand creates cultural meaning, where the emphasis is on the identification and celebration of difference. By sharing the same cultural belonging and by expressing this in relation to the public, the actors have developed confidence and strength with emancipatory significance. It has given them an instrument with which to deal with their experiences of ambivalence to their environment.
This article presents an overview of research about support-to-work in relation to psychiatric and intellectual disabilities. The overview shows that support-to-work services are multifaceted, and that work can be seen as a tool for individual rehabilitation or as a set of goals to achieve. Providers are presented with specific components, which are characterized by systematic, targeted, and individualized interventions. The overview illustrates a need for long-term engagement and cooperation of and between welfare services and agents within the labor market to dissolve the Gordian knot that the transition from welfare interventions to employment seems to be.
Artikeln diskuterar och problematiserar de erfarenheter som unga vuxna personer med intellektuella funktionshinder ger uttryck för i relation till en organisatorisk och samhällelig kontext. En utgångspunkt i artikeln är spänningsförhållandet mellan funktionshinderpolitikens institutionella logik och de idéer, identiteter och föreställningar om framtiden som kommer till uttryck hos unga vuxna personer med intellektuella funktionshinder. Vi relaterar till ett bredare samhällsperspektiv och argumenterar för att nya livsstilsanspråk är nära förknippade med föreställningen om det senmoderna samhället och dess ökade krav på flexibilitet och ständigt återskapande av identiteter.
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