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Accessibility Denied. Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities book cover

1st Edition

Accessibility Denied. Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities

Edited By Hanna Egard, Kristofer Hansson, David Wästerfors Copyright 2022
230 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the societal resistance to accessibility for persons with disabilities, and tries to set an example of how to study exclusion in a time when numerous policies promise inclusion. With 12 chapters organised in three parts, the book takes a comprehensive approach to accessibility, covering transport and communication, knowledge and education, law and organisation. Topics within... Read more

List of contributors

Introduction: Into the fields of stubborn obstacles and lingering exclusion
Hanna Egard, Kristofer Hansson & David Wästerfors

Part 1 - City and transport

  1. Accessible enough? Legitimising half-measures of accessibility in Swedish urban environments
    Hanna Egard

  2. The bus trip: Constraints, hierarchies and injustice
    Vanessa Stjernborg

  3. Monitoring the standard – here, now and in person: Detecting accessibility faults as an engaged citizen
    David Wästerfors

  4. Traveling insecurely: The association of security and accessibility in public transport
    Kristofer Hansson

    5. Part 2 - Knowledge and education

  5. Struggles for inclusion: The unrecognised toil of hearing-impaired students
    Patrick Stefan Kermit

  6. Gatekeepers and gatekeeping: On participation and marginalisation in everyday life
    Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, Giulia Messina Dahlberg & Lars Alméns

  7. Still waiting for the hand to be raised: On being crip killjoys at an ableist university
    Elisabet Apelmo & Camilla Nordgren

  8. Access to sexuality: Disabled people’s experiences of multiple barriers
    Julia Bahner

  9. New barriers and new possibilities: Confronting language inaccessibility in and around a pandemic
    Liz Adams Lyngbäck, Mia Larsdotter & Enni Paul

    10. Part 3 - Institution, law and history

  10. It is supposed to be a home: Barriers to everyday life decisions in group homes
    Eric Svanelöv & Lena Talman

  11. Making the law invisible: How bureaucratic resistance makes support inaccessible
    Barbro Lewin

  12. Using building requirements as a means to create inclusion: Accessibility and usability at a crossroads
    Jonas E. Andersson

Afterword
Rannveig Traustadóttir

Biography

Hanna Egard is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Work, Malmö University, Sweden.

Kristofer Hansson is Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work, Malmö University, Sweden.

David Wästerfors is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden.

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