Forgotten reality. About the (un) conscious social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the State Agricultural Farms Cover Image

Zapomniana rzeczywistość. Rzecz o (nie)świadomej inkluzji społecznej osób z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną w Państwowych Gospodarstwach Rolnych
Forgotten reality. About the (un) conscious social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the State Agricultural Farms

Author(s): Maciej Jabłoński
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: State Agricultural Farms; intellectual disability; deinstitutionalisation; colonialism; power; social inclusion

Summary/Abstract: The article constitutes an attempt to rehabilitate State Agricultural Farms as a place of (un)conscious social inclusion, described from autoethnographic perspective. The author tried to show that in the State Agricultural Farms as the community, a special programme or regulation was unnecessary so that a disabled person felt a respected and full member of the community. In the text a State Agricultural Farm was confronted with the modern ideas of normalization or deinstitutionalisation, where the apparent duality between compromising/(same)compromising and normalization/deinstitutionalisation of displayed places does not provide a definite answer. The ambiguity puts us in suspense, that perhaps, at present none of the described places (as well as not described in the text) meets the criteria of: the fullest development, a sense of autonomy and freedom of the person with a disability.

  • Issue Year: 6/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 131-147
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish