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Mor, Sagit. "From Welfare to Rights--The Changing Forms of Disability Activism in Israel: Voluntary Associations, Social Movements, and Cause Lawyering" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Law and Society Association, Renaissance Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, May 27, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p116828_index.html>

Mor, S. , 2004-05-27 "From Welfare to Rights--The Changing Forms of Disability Activism in Israel: Voluntary Associations, Social Movements, and Cause Lawyering" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Law and Society Association, Renaissance Hotel, Chicago, Illinois <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p116828_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: This paper looks at Israeli disability activism in historical context and examines the changing role of law in that process. It explores the connection between the shift from welfare to right as different legal frameworks to address the needs and interests of people with disabilities (PWD) and the changing forms of disability activism in Israel. I show that the welfare era, despite the state’s rhetorical commitment to socialism and relatively progressive welfare policies, was characterized by neglect of the general population of PWD, and legal protection of only privileged groups, the dominant among them are work injured and disabled veterans. Interestingly, the result was on the one hand, blossoming of disability related voluntary associations which represent the very beginning of Israeli civil society; but on the other hand a scattered and divided community in which PWD lacked any solidarity. Later on, as welfare and collectivism declined and individualism and rights have strengthened, so has changed the form of disability activism. Thus, more adversarial relations with the state have developed; law was increasingly used as a terrain of struggle, especially through the importation of disability rights language; and a vibrant disability movement has emerged with complex modes of cooperation and competition among its participants. Following a close examination of the role of law and cause lawyers in that movement building process my paper suggests that law has evolved from a hidden mechanism of division and fragmentation in the welfare period, to a potential platform for coalition building in the rights era. It further maintains that although disability rights cause-lawyers had a significant role in bringing the vision of rights and coalition building, it were grassroots associations that maintained continuity with traditional Israeli type public interest work and remained grounded in PWD’s immediate needs and hardships; a combination that made the movement more relevant and dynamic

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