Ability in disability enacted in the National Parliament of South Africa

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

卷:17

Camilla Hansen¹ 

[1] Department of Community Medicine, Section of Medical Anthropology and Medical History, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, 1130 Blindern, 0318 Oslo, Oslo, Norway;

关键词: post-apartheid South Africa;    diversity;    reconciliation;    human rights;    disability politics/classification;    reasonable accommodation;    ability/disability;    social life;    inequalities;   

DOI  :  10.1080/15017419.2013.859177

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This anthropological study describes how disabled activist and politicians transcend race segregation, exclusions, discrimination and make disability and ability in disability real in the eyes of the nation. Based upon interviews with 15 parliamentarians with disability (MP) and participations observation in the National Parliament, between 2005 and 2006, this article disentangle inclusion/ exclusion in a particular historical context and situate the role disabled politicians in building a new South Africa. In post-apartheid, exclusion is linked to ‘disadvantage communities’. These new political positions created can be traced back to the introduction of ubuntu as connected with disability and ability in new nation, as well as the association between physical disability and the structural disabilities associated with the apartheid regime. Such political narrative strategies served to create a new broad relational understanding of disability, bringing new political capital to people with disabilities and interconnect disability in the new nationhood.

【 授权许可】

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