Engelsk titel: Ability in disability enacted in the National Parliament of South Africa
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Författare:
Hansen, Camilla
Email: camilla.hansen@medisin.uio.no
Språk: Eng
Antal referenser: 34
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 15073179
Sammanfattning
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.