Monographic Part: Disabled People’s Participation in the Culture Cover Image

Część monograficzna: Uczestnictwo osób niepełnosprawnych w kulturze
Monographic Part: Disabled People’s Participation in the Culture

Author(s): Anna Nowak
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Health and medicine and law, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: participation; forms of participation; disabled person; culture; barriers

Summary/Abstract: In the paper there are presented chosen aspects of the problem related to the disabled people’s participation in culture. An attention is focused at the notion, expressions and kinds of participation, as well as at the different dimensions of the disabled people’s participation in the culture. There is exposed a value of culture and it’s meaning in the disabled people’s life. There are indicated examples of the cultural initiatives in which disabled people participate. There are also presented the perspectives of disabled women’s participation in culture (basing at their perception of the problem), as well as the problems of the barriers blocking disabled people’s access to the culture and cultural institutions.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 44 (1)
  • Page Range: 91-102
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish