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      Vulnerability, Disability, and Agency: Exploring Structures for Inclusive Decision-Making and Participation in a Responsive State

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          By unpacking some of the dichotomies inherent in the concepts of vulnerability and disability, the article problematises some of the current legal approaches to disability in Finland. It argues that where used to single out population groups or individuals due to their embodied characteristics, the vulnerability paradigm can be seen to create binaries both among the persons with disabilities, and between the “vulnerable” persons with disabilities and the perception of a rational, self-standing and autonomous human being. To mitigate such binaries, the article explores an agency-centred discourse of vulnerability, one that recognises the co-existence of agency and vulnerability and sees agency as dynamic and responsive to the societal support structures that surround all of us. One of the central arguments of the article is that generalised approaches do, however, not suffice to make agency a reality for all persons with disabilities. Given the extensive diversity of intra-group variations between persons with disabilities, individualised solutions are needed for agency to be possible for all. To overcome objectification and de-agencification – and to enhance agency – this diversity of situations, needs and contexts of lived-in realities of individuals also needs to be expressly reflected in the legal language in addressing disability.

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                Contributors
                maija.mustaniemi-laakso@abo.fi , https://research.abo.fi/en/persons/maija-mustaniemi-laakso
                hisayo.katsui@helsinki.fi
                mikaela.heikkila@abo.fi
                Journal
                Int J Semiot Law
                Int J Semiot Law
                International Journal for the Semiotics of Law
                Springer Netherlands (Dordrecht )
                0952-8059
                1572-8722
                21 December 2022
                21 December 2022
                : 1-29
                Affiliations
                [1 ]GRID grid.13797.3b, ISNI 0000 0001 2235 8415, Institute for Human Rights, , Åbo Akademi University, ; Turku, Finland
                [2 ]GRID grid.7737.4, ISNI 0000 0004 0410 2071, Faculty of Social Sciences, , University of Helsinki, ; Helsinki, Finland
                [3 ]GRID grid.13797.3b, ISNI 0000 0001 2235 8415, Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics, Institute for Human Rights, , Åbo Akademi University, ; Turku, Finland
                Author information
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0763-5653
                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9731-7834
                http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4955-8024
                Article
                9946
                10.1007/s11196-022-09946-x
                9770555
                36573122
                ee7a0f93-189f-4d0a-986b-c259d54a1b68
                © The Author(s) 2022

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                History
                : 8 October 2022
                Funding
                Funded by: FundRef http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002341, Academy of Finland;
                Award ID: 338351
                Funded by: Abo Akademi University (ABO)
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                vulnerability,disability,human rights,agency,participation
                vulnerability, disability, human rights, agency, participation

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