Rescue our children: the public discourses to reform residential care for disabled children in the post-Soviet countries
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | In line with the discourse institutionalism, we aim to highlight the role of public campaigns and civic journalism in the current reform of residential care as either connecting the claim of institutional changes with upgrading the approaches to disability or leading the public concern to tokenism due to reproducing developmentalism inherent to Soviet special education. Media framing research permeates three consequential comparisons. Firstly, we demonstrate the compatibility of the Soviet defectological discourse and the ideological platform one of the earliest moral campaigns (2008-2009), around the case of Kristina A. the 8-year girl who was transferred step by step from mainstream orphanage to the setting for children with multiple disorder of development. |
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