Between disabling disorders and mundane nervousness: representations of psychiatric patients and their distress in Soviet and post-Soviet Latvia Mental illnesses as socially constructed entities ‘Partially or completely incapable of work’: mental illness and disability in Soviet times Discovering patient rights: post-Soviet perspectives on psychiatric disability ‘Minor psychiatry’ comes to the aid: easing the neurologists’ workload ‘Sheer otherness’: representations of mental illness in Latvian society Stories about people with mental illness: changes in media representations Concluding discussion Notes Bibliography 6. Heroes and spongers: the iconography of disability in Soviet posters and film Icons and metaphors of disability Visual depictions in the 1920s: a reserve army of labour ‘With such people we will win any war!’: clichés of military heroism in the ‘Grand Style’ period Limited social change during the ‘Thaw’ period Moral variations in the visual aesthetics of disability during the stagnation period (1964–85) There are invalids in the USSR: the reconstruction of visual culture Conclusion: changes and challenges of (post) Soviet disability imagery Notes References 5. Prosthetic promise and Potemkin limbs in late-Stalinist Russia Revolutionary hands Prosthetic promises and ‘invalid-inventors’ The failings of Soviet technology Complaints, responses, and immunity Conclusion Notes 4. ![]() Soviet-style welfare: the disabled soldiers of the ‘Great Patriotic War’ Historical background No benefits for those who can work: the search for recognition by disabled veterans Not enough to live on: pensions for disabled soldiers The lower end of the hierarchy: the reintegration of disabled soldiers into working life Heroes without a voice: how the state hindered a collective identity among disabled veterans Conclusion Notes 3. Conceptualising disability in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union Disability as a lens for understanding Eastern Europe Disability, modernity and postsocialism Locating Eastern Europe in disability studies The evolution of disability studies in Eastern Europe Multidisciplinary perspectives on disability in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union References 2. If you are interested in a print please contact me directly.Table of contents : Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures and tables Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1. Note: “I am currently fundraising to make short films similar to “Mana Kai”, to raise awareness about various ocean plastic pollution issues, and all sales from “Freedom Breach” prints go directly to fund that. There was so much playfulness, power and freedom in it, I wanted to capture and share that moment with others and that’s how “Freedom Breach” came about!” ![]() While on the boat I saw many breaches and I was amazed by how “easily” and gracefully a creature that weighs over a ton can propel itself out of the water into the air with just few strokes. Maui’s west coast provides warm and shallow waters which makes it ideal for whales offsprings. During the winter, North Pacific Humpback Whales migrate all the way from Alaska to mate, give birth and prepare the young ones for the journey back cross the Pacific to feed in Alaska in the summers. ![]() ![]() “I took this shot while on a sailboat off the west side of Maui Island in Hawaii this past winter.
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