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In response to the economic crisis in 2009, the Hungarian government reducedthe level of support for the employment of impaired people. The withdrawalof this state support has not only resulted in a massive wave of dismissals,but has also transformed some peripheral settlements into spaces ofresistance. The research presented in this paper was conducted to understandthe nature of political actions organised in Békés County (one ofHungary's disadvantaged regions) in order to support the social employmentof impaired people. By analysing these political actions we have highlightedcertain contradictions of applying the concept of identity politics in apost-socialist context, and the advantages of a combined, biosocial model.On the one hand, the outline of the political and economic situation helpedus understand that the analysed social protests only resembled identitypolitics. In reality, they may even have contributed to the reproduction ofableism. On the other hand, by integrating individual experiences into thesocial model of disability we could also reveal that according to ourimpaired interviewees, it is not only their impairments and/or disabilitiesthat render daily life difficult. Their firm call for changes in botheconomic and regional policy suggests that the deliberate and combined useof identity and class politics would be particularly important. Overall, ourresults suggest that it is essential for scholars in Hungary to engage morestrongly in critical disability geography and to thus help the approach takeroot and develop further

Whose identity politics? – Lessons for emerging critical disability geography in Hungary