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Associations of people with disabilities in Italy: a short history

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2016

Matteo Schianchi
Matteo Schianchi*
Affiliation:
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
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∗Email: matteoschianchi@tiscali.it
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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

Keywords

voluntary associationsdisabled persons' organisationsCRPDwelfare stateparticularism
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Articles
Information
Modern Italy , Volume 19 , Issue 2: Disability rights and wrongs in Italy , May 2014 , pp. 121 - 133
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Copyright © Association for the study of Modern Italy 

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