New Social Roles and Identifications?
摘要
This chapter discusses the possible impact of the Nordic Disability Reforms of the 1970s, 80s and 90s with a special focus on social roles of persons with intellectual disabilities and self-identifications of the members of the first generation of inclusion. An important step in the analysis is constituted by the empirical findings of the dramatical increase, during and after the reforms, of children with intellectual disabilities growing up in their biological families or foster families. The meanings of these changes for the development of the children’s self-relations are analysed against the background of, among others, Honneth’s theory of social recognition and self-confidence. In the discussion, Fricker’s theory of hermeneutical resources adds to our understanding of the impact of the reforms in pointing to the reforms’ importance as a guiding narrative for the members of the generation of inclusion in understanding their independent life-trajectories.