Neoliberalism, postsocialism, disability

Mladenov, Teodor

doi:10.1080/09687599.2015.1021758

Cited by 76 publications

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“…The Independent Living in Scotland Project has developed a 'toolkit' to help all who are involved in the co-production process conduct the process with ease (ILiS 2012). Mladenov (2015) argues that today's neo-liberalism confronts the ILM with two difficult tasks: to defend the self-determination of choice and control while criticising marketbased individualism; and to defend the welfare state while criticising expert-based paternalism.…”

Section: Epistemic Injustice Pluralism and Co-productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disabled people’s Independent Living Movement in Scotland: a time for reflection

Elder-Woodward¹

2016

Ethics and Social Welfare

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On the 20th anniversary of the Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living, this paper looks at the situation of the disabled people's Independent Living Movement (ILM) in Scotland. With the passing of the Social Care (Self-directed Support) Scotland Act, in 2013, self-directed support became the default position within the assessment process for social care. Such success may have marginally improved the liberal values within the ILM-the individual's freedom, dignity, choice and control. However, the neo-liberal managerialism within today's Scottish social care system, operated by Scottish local authorities, is seen by the movement as impeding disabled people's group rights and civic participation, by cutting or withdrawing funding to the collective and its peer services. The consequence of such impediment not only restricts the group's participative citizenship, but that of the individual. The paper calls for some time to reflect on this dilemma.

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Section: Epistemic Injustice Pluralism and Co-productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disabled people’s Independent Living Movement in Scotland: a time for reflection

Elder-Woodward¹

2016

Ethics and Social Welfare

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“…But there is a difference between the former communist and the actual regime in Romania. The former society was very much centralized and directed by the communist authorities while nowadays the state has retired from his former functions, the society being much more market oriented and following a "neo-liberal" ideology even in the redistribution of benefits as shows some east European sociologists (Mladenov, T. -2015).…”

Section: Competitiveness Perspective: Schools Like Enterprises Are Comentioning

confidence: 99%

Special or Inclusive Education in Romania?

Alexiu

Baciu

Sandvin

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European Review of Applied Sociology

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In our paper we will try to explore the process of reforming the "special needs education" ideology of the Romanian school system toward the European target called "inclusive education". Following the method of inquiry named Institutional Ethnography, our study investigated first the everyday dysfunctional experiences of special needs populations approaching the scholar system, and then the institutional response for these dysfunctionalities, the final target being a better understanding and finding solutions to the problematics encountered. After the dissolution of the communist regime very few disabled students succeeded to be integrated in the general education and these happy cases happened in the prestige schools with dedicated teachers and mainly because of the huge efforts of the parents. The most part of the disabled students had to address the old special schools (much less organized and financed than they used to be) to get vocational training for the special protected units that disappeared in the meantime. An inclusive school would be fit for an inclusive society but when the labour market and society as a whole is excluding this category, the segregated education seem the proper approach and illustrate the reproductive efforts of the society through the education in the Bourdieu perspective. In fact the "inclusive education" European model seems still far for Romania. Even the objective is clear the path is still unclear, due the discriminatory resistance of the society. A learning process is needed but the process seems difficult because "students" refuse to learn it and teachers seem very hard to find.

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“…Thus after 1989, the welfarist option was blocked and postsocialist countries embarked on neoliberalization of social policy. The latter included retrenchment of support, promotion of market principles in the organization of provision and, since the beginning of 2000s, the introduction of workfare programs that have made support conditional on preparation for or participation in paid employment (Gould and Harris, 2012;Mladenov, 2015). Thus a new version of productivism partially complemented and partially displaced the old one.…”

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“…From the perspective of the present analysis, emancipation of disabled people calls for undermining the mechanism of productivism, particularly the commodification of labor. State socialism rejected decommodification as eroding the 'communist attitude to work', and neoliberal capitalism rejected it as creating and maintaining a 'dependency culture' (Mladenov, 2015). Both regimes have regarded paid work as the key condition for economic development, social cohesion and 33 personal integrity, although, as pointed out by Zaviršek (2014: 190), 'not only unemployment, but also work itself, may cause social exclusion and create social outcasts'.…”

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From State Socialist to Neoliberal Productivism: Disability Policy and Invalidation of Disabled People in the Postsocialist Region

Mladenov¹

2015

Critical Sociology

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This paper criticizes the negative impact of productivism on disabled people of working age in the postsocialist region of Central and Eastern Europe. Productivism is conceptualized as a mechanism that generates cultural and material invalidation of those considered to be unable to work. The analysis begins by outlining some political-economic features of state socialism that underpinned its productivism, emphasizing commodification of labor. It proceeds by discussing the ensuing approach to social policy, comparing it with two alternative models.Afterwards, it highlights several ways in which productivism shaped disability policy in the countries of the former Eastern Bloc. Finally, the analysis looks at present-day disability policy in the postsocialist region. It is argued that after 1989, the state-based productivism of the socialist regime was partially complemented and partially displaced by the market-based 2 productivism of the new neoliberal regime. The conclusion discusses strategies for resisting productivism, focusing specifically on decommodification of labor.

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Neoliberalism, postsocialism, disability

Cited by 76 publications

References 25 publications

Disabled people’s Independent Living Movement in Scotland: a time for reflection

Disabled people’s Independent Living Movement in Scotland: a time for reflection

Special or Inclusive Education in Romania?

From State Socialist to Neoliberal Productivism: Disability Policy and Invalidation of Disabled People in the Postsocialist Region

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