Disabled veterans, radio citizenship, and the politics of national recovery

Providing career development services, through career counseling and assessment, is part of vocational rehabilitation programming. However, there is no applied evidence that such career development services are feasible or accepted among individuals with psychiatric disorders. We examined feasibility (acceptability, demand, and perceived need) of the Vocational Evaluation Center (VEC), one veterans affairs (VA) hospital’s method of career development services for veterans with psychiatric disorders. Demographics, referral source, and service utilization were analyzed among 90 veterans referred to the VEC. Qualitative analysis identified patterns to veterans’ reasons for seeking VEC services. Veterans referred to the VEC were predominately unemployed and disabled. Veterans tolerated the intervention well, with 16.7% dropping out. Reported needs for VEC services included (a) vocational uncertainty, (b) functional considerations in vocational planning, and (c) finding purpose. Veterans with psychiatric disorders want career development services. The VEC model appears feasible, well-tolerated, and aligned with consumers’ needs.

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Social adaptation and employment of disabled people during the Great Patriotic War (on the materials of the Tatar ASSR)

Samara Journal of Science ◽

10.17816/snv201762217 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 173-177

Author(s):

Aislu Sharipzyanovna Kabirova

Keyword(s):

Health Care Services ◽

Social Protection ◽

Social Adaptation ◽

Disabled People ◽

Leadership Positions ◽

Socialist Republic ◽

Soviet Socialist Republic ◽

Care Services ◽

Disabled Veterans ◽

Great Patriotic War

The article deals with the problems of social adaptation of disabled veterans of the Great Patriotic War in the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic after their return to peaceful life. Based on the documentary materials extracted from the funds of the federal and Tatarstan archives The author characterizes forms of state support for war-maimed people, resolution of their production training and employment, appointment of pensions, opening of boarding houses, organization of health care services, etc. It is noted that for the majority of disabled people this targeted support was often a determining factor in ensuring their livelihoods. The employment of disabled veterans of the Patriotic War made it possible to solve a two-fold problem: in the conditions of an acute shortage of workers, a new personnel reserve was created for the economy and at the same time social protection of veterans returned after treatment in hospitals was provided. Many disabled veterans of the Great Patriotic War showed themselves well in the workplace, became leaders and were nominated for leadership positions. But there were those who led an immoral lifestyle, begging. The authorities, called to solve the issues of social rehabilitation of disabled people, did not always cope with the tasks assigned to them. Evidence of this is the facts of the soullessly-bureaucratic attitude of certain officials to the needs and requests of disabled people, cases of appropriation of funds and squandering of state funds.

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Wounded Warriors of the Future Disability Hierarchy in Avatar and Source Code

Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies ◽

10.3828/jlcds.2020.27 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 14 (4) ◽

pp. 403-419 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sami Schalk

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Science Fiction ◽

American Culture ◽

Source Code ◽

Cultural Norms ◽

Disabled People ◽

Disabled Veterans ◽

The Future ◽

Wounded Warriors ◽

Contemporary United States

The article analyzes the representation of disabled veterans in James Cameron’s Avatar and Duncan Jones’s Source Code. The argument is that these two films use the figure of the heroic, technologically enhanced, white disabled veteran man to alleviate cultural anxieties, fears, and guilt about veterans and disabled people in the contemporary United States. In doing so, however, Avatar and Source Code perpetuate a disability hierarchy that reinforces a variety of oppressive cultural norms. The article, therefore, demonstrates how the films reflect the differential valuation and treatment of different kinds of disabled people in American culture at large via the genre of science fiction and its technological imaginative possibilities.

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Prosthetic Heroes

Disability Media Studies ◽

10.18574/nyu/9781479867820.003.0006 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Ellen Samuels

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Disability Studies ◽

Disabled Veterans ◽

Disability Narratives ◽

The Social ◽

Cultural Roles ◽

The U.S

Ellen Samuels examines Iron Man 3 (Shane Black, 2013), arguing that this film’s representations of veterans and disability reflected the social context in which increasing numbers of disabled veterans were returning to the U.S., with their futures uncertain. Drawing on veterans’ longstanding cultural roles as “heroes” or “villains,” this superhero film ultimately positions cure as both violent and mandatory, suggesting little cultural tolerance for veterans’ ongoing disabilities (specifically, PTSD and amputations) and the resources that such conditions would require. Bringing a disability studies reading to a Hollywood blockbuster, this chapter demonstrates the pervasiveness and power of disability narratives.

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