Voluntary associations of persons with disabilities have played an important role in bringing issues related to disability onto the national agenda in Italy in the absence of effective provision by the state or representation by other bodies, such as the political parties and trades unions. At the same time, the nature of Italy’s welfare state – weak, clientelistic, particularistic – and its way of conceiving disability as a set of bodily deficits has also shaped the character of disabled persons’ organisations in Italy and the ways in which they have framed their demands and policies. These organisations have tended either to represent fragmented subsets of people with disabilities or, more recently, to form large federations that, while they reflect a more comprehensive understanding of disability, have left some categories of people with disabilities feeling excluded or under-represented

Schianchi, M. (2014). Associations of people with disabilities in Italy: A short history. MODERN ITALY, 19(2), 121-133 [10.1080/13532944.2014.917072].

Associations of people with disabilities in Italy: A short history

Schianchi, M
2014

Abstract

Voluntary associations of persons with disabilities have played an important role in bringing issues related to disability onto the national agenda in Italy in the absence of effective provision by the state or representation by other bodies, such as the political parties and trades unions. At the same time, the nature of Italy’s welfare state – weak, clientelistic, particularistic – and its way of conceiving disability as a set of bodily deficits has also shaped the character of disabled persons’ organisations in Italy and the ways in which they have framed their demands and policies. These organisations have tended either to represent fragmented subsets of people with disabilities or, more recently, to form large federations that, while they reflect a more comprehensive understanding of disability, have left some categories of people with disabilities feeling excluded or under-represented
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voluntary associations; disabled persons’ organisations; CRPD, welfare state; particularism
English
2014
19
2
121
133
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Schianchi, M. (2014). Associations of people with disabilities in Italy: A short history. MODERN ITALY, 19(2), 121-133 [10.1080/13532944.2014.917072].
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