Presenting research from the first major comparative and cross-national study of active citizenship and disability in Europe, this book analyses the consequences of ongoing changes in Europe - what opportunities do persons with disabilities have to exercise Active Citizenship? Volume 2 analyses how men and women with disabilities reflexively make their way through the world, pursuing their own interests and values.

Lists of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; 1. Changing Opportunities for Active Citizenship in Europe: Understanding the Lived Experiences of Persons with Disabilities (Rune Halvorsen, Bjørn Hvinden, Julie Beadle-Brown, Mario Biggeri, Jan Tøssebro and Anne Waldschmidt); 2. Connecting Lived Lives and Disability Policy - Active Citizenship from a Life-course Perspective (Rune Halvorsen, Bjørn Hvinden, Mario Biggeri and Anne Waldschmidt); 3. Life-course Interviews on Disability and Active Citizenship - Collecting and Analysing Big Qualitative Data (Rune Halvorsen, Kjetil Klette Bøhler and Jan Siska); 4. Changes and Diversity in Community Living in Europe - the Experiences of Persons with Disabilities (Jan siSka, Julie Beadle-Brown, sárka Kánová and Anna M. Kittelsaa); 5. Diversity and Change in the Labour Market Careers of Persons with Disabilities (Edmund Coleman-Fountain, Roy Sainsbury, Bruno Trezzini and sárka Kánová); 6. Identity and Political Participation throughout the Life Course - the Experiences of Persons with Disabilities in European countries (Anemari Karacic, Andreas Sturm, Anne Waldschmidt and Timo Dins); 7. Active Citizenship in Using Accessible Technology - the Experiences of Three Generations (Jennifer Kline, Eilionóir Flynn and Sinéad Keogh); 8. How do Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities Experience and Practice Active Citizenship in Education and Work? (Marie Sépulchre, Rafael Lindqvist, Victoria Schuller and Kjetil Klette Böhler); 9. The Role of the Family in Structuring the Opportunities for exercising Active Citizenship among Persons with Disabilities (Mario Biggeri, Caterina Arciprete, Rita Barbuto, Federico Ciani and Giampiero Griffo); 10. Gendering Active Citizenship: Experiences of Women with Disabilities (Marie Sépulchre, Victoria Schuller, Jennifer Kline and Anna M. Kittelsaa); 11. Transitions to Active Citizenship for Young Persons with Disabilities - Virtuous and Vicious Cycles of Functionings (Rune Halvorsen and Kjetil Klette Bøhler); 12. Technologies for Active Citizenship and the Agency of Objects (Kjetil Klette Bøhler and G. Anthony Giannoumis); 13. Rethinking Active Citizenship: Lessons from Life-Course Interviews in Nine European Countries; (Rune Halvorsen, Julie Beadle-Brown, Mario Biggeri, Bjørn Hvinden, Jan Tøssebro and Anne Waldschmidt); Index