This book employs a mixed methods research approach to explore disability stigma in Poland, offering rich ethnographic insights as well as introducing a cross-culturally replicable quantitative measurement. It navigates the challenges to social integration for people with disabilities amidst evolving cultural dynamics in the European context.
Assessing the social integration of people with disabilities in an intra-culturally valid yet cross-culturally replicable and comparative manner is a crucial but challenging tasks for policy makers across the EU. Stigma has been shown to interfere with the successful implementation of public policy and hinder the social integration of people with disabilities. Navigating Disability Stigma in Poland's Changing Cultural Landscape: An Ethnographic and Quantitative Exploration of Social Integration in the European Context employs a mixed method research approach to investigate the stigma toward people with disabilities in Poland. Using a novel approach to existing methods in the field of cognitive anthropology, the author develops a quantitative and potentially cross-culturally replicable assessment of this stigma, offering a vital tool for monitoring social integration. This book navigates the evolving cultural landscape of post state-socialist Poland, where the discourse on disability intersect with shifting societal values and tensions surrounding independence versus state care.
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Navigating Disability Stigma in Poland's Changing Cultural Landscape offers an ethnographically rich and theoretically nuanced investigation of disability in Poland. As an exquisitely researched and carefully crafted study, this book reflects Hollemans deep commitment to understanding (dis)ability as a complex articulation between bodies, cultural models, and physical geographies in particular spaces and times. It thus raises a series of provocative and important questions about how we might deepen theories of disability to include more nuanced understandings of culture. -- Sonya Pritzker, University of Alabama Dr. Mirjam Holleman has carried out an important study of disability in Poland. To me the most striking aspect of this work is how she successfully integrates the study of an important policy issuestigmawith her own experiences as a person who, from her personal perspective, would be described as disabled, employing the theory and methods of cognitive anthropology. Theory and method in cognitive anthropology have gotten a bad rap for many years, stemming from the early days of ethnoscience when it was described as 'the study of other peoples butterfly collections.' In Dr. Hollemans able hands, this theory and method become nothing less than a tool for understanding that is both subtle and nuanced, as well as a means for advocacy. -- William W. Dressler, University of Alabama Mirjam Hollemans insightful exploration of disability in Poland reveals the physical and social dimensions of inclusion and exclusion. Through close observation and personal stories, she helps us relate to the experience of disability while also developing a cross-culturally applicable, replicable, and comparative framework for evaluating stigma. Written with clarity, insight, and humor, the book is a must-read for anyone interested in developing effective policies that enable accessibility for all people. -- Marysia Galbraith, The University of Alabama
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This book employs a mixed methods research approach to explore disability stigma in Poland, offering rich ethnographic insights as well as introducing a cross-culturally replicable quantitative measurement. It navigates the challenges to social integration for people with disabilities amidst evolving cultural dynamics in the European context.
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: EU Goals of Integration for People with Disabilities: Challenges in Monitoring Progress and Measuring Attitudes
Chapter 2: The Management of Disability in the EU and Poland: Who is Disabled and Why Does it Matter?
Chapter 3: Theory Leading to Methods: Linking Cognitive Anthropology, Disability Theory, and Stigma
Chapter 4: Historical Background and Current Social Context: Investigating the Roots of a Polish Cultural Model of Normality and Deviance
Chapter 5: Cultural Models in Transitions: Investigating the Perpetuation and Contestation of Polish Cultural Attitudes toward Disability using Discourse Analysis
Chapter 6: Step by Step Development of a New Stigma Measurement Tool using Mixed Methods
Chapter 7: Quantitative Analysis and Results: Measuring Polish Cultural Models of Normality and Their Effects on Stigma
Chapter 8: Ethnography: Effects of Stigma on the Lived Experiences of People with Disabilities in Poland
Chapter 9: Ethnography: Coping Strategies in their Cultural Context
Conclusion
Appendix A: List of Scenarios on Survey and Variable Labels in SPSS
Appendix B: Polish Translations of Survey Questions
References
About the Author
Mirjam Holleman graduated with a PhD in Biocultural Medical Anthropology from the University of Alabama.
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