Participation and justice. The impact of post-socialism, market economy and ableism on the social participation of people with disabilities

Contributing to disability studies in the post-socialist context (Mladenov, 2015, 2016), this paper explores the social injustices generated by the ableist environment. We were interested in seeing how the theory of social justice by Nancy Fraser, a philosopher and critical theorist, can be understood from the triple perspective of post-socialist legacy, neoliberal market economy, and ableism. The theoretical paper focuses on the economic, cultural and political specificities of post-socialist ableism.