We have agreed to provide within the journal a list of completed theses in the field of Disability Studies. This will be an important resource for readers to follow through as well as to provide the names of colleagues who are new entrants to the discipline.
This is an open invitation for theses completed from 2014 which fit with the Aims and Scope of Disability & Society.
Please provide the following information:
Name of the author
Thesis title
University awarding degree
Degree awarded and year
A 100-word synopsis of the thesis
Email address
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We will include this call for Doctoral Announcements in forthcoming issues of the journal.
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Name of author:Marie Sépulchre
Thesis title:This is Not Citizenship. Analysing the Claims of Disability Activists in Sweden
University awarding degree:Uppsala University, Sweden
Degree awarded and year:PhD, 2019
This study examines the claims of disability activists in Sweden based on the analysis of blog posts and debate articles (n = 474). Drawing on citizenship studies, the thesis argues that disability activism can be considered a citizenship struggle and points at tensions underpinning this struggle. Among others, the disability activists demand equal rights, while recognising the reality of costs; demand that disabled people be considered as ordinary citizens while asking for the accommodation of their specific needs; and view the state as the protector of equal citizenship while criticising it as a cause of the structural inequalities faced by disabled people.
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