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Navigating Disability Stigma in Poland's Changing Cultural Landscape

An Ethnographic and Quantitative Exploration of Social Integration in the European Context

Mirjam Holleman

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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Lexington Books
Pages: 182 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-66696-163-8 • Hardback • December 2024 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
Subjects: Social Science / People with Disabilities, Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural, Social Science / Minority Studies

Mirjam Holleman graduated with a PhD in Biocultural Medical Anthropology from the University of Alabama.

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

"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 Holleman’s 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 issue—stigma—with 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 people’s butterfly collections.' In Dr. Holleman’s 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 Holleman’s 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


Navigating Disability Stigma in Poland's Changing Cultural Landscape

An Ethnographic and Quantitative Exploration of Social Integration in the European Context

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Summary
Summary
  • 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.

Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 182 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
    978-1-66696-163-8 • Hardback • December 2024 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
    Subjects: Social Science / People with Disabilities, Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural, Social Science / Minority Studies
Author
Author
  • Mirjam Holleman graduated with a PhD in Biocultural Medical Anthropology from the University of Alabama.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • 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

Reviews
Reviews
  • "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 Holleman’s 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 issue—stigma—with 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 people’s butterfly collections.' In Dr. Holleman’s 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 Holleman’s 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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