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Disability Disruptions

Gender, Family, and Care in Post-1989 Poland

Av Natalia Pamula

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In postsocialist Poland, the state offers no support for its disabled citizens and often abandons families to care for them. Natalia Pamula draws on memoirs, novels, journalistic accounts, protest statements, and interviews to excavate the voices of disabled people and caregivers caught within a system that both privatizes care and denies aid to families.Polish politicians regularly idealize the family. But, as Pamula illustrates such rhetoric coerces people into a state of violent intimacy that forces the burden of care onto family members bound by love, dependence, and responsibility. As the narratives show, disability destabilizes national myths, challenges heteronormative and patriarchal family ideals, and exposes continuities between socialist and capitalist regimes in their treatment of disabled citizens.A rich blend of activism and analysis, Disability Disruptions ventures outside Anglophone notions of disability to highlight how Poland's disabled people and caregivers overcome lack of recognition, resist social death, and rewrite public memory.
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Natalia Pamula is an assistant professor at the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw.

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"Pamuła's rich source base and deft, disability-focused analysis overturns conventional accounts of 'rupture' in postsocialist Poland. The book centers vernacular Polish disability narratives of crisis ordinariness, crip kinship, and violent intimacies to enrich understandings of postsocialist families, care, and politics through a decolonizing disability justice lens."—Sarah D. Phillips, author of Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine"Natalia Pamuła explores the most tender dimensions of care—dependencies enforced by precarity and familial structures strained by state neglect. The book offers vital feminist and queer disruptions to our conventional understanding of disability, Eastern Europe, and social solidarity. Beautifully written, urgent, and critical, it ultimately offers a message of hope."—Kateřina Kolářová, author of Rehabilitative Postsocialism: Disability, Sex, and Race in Eastern Europe

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