1st Edition

Disability, Spaces and Places of Policy Exclusion

Edited By Karen Soldatic, Hannah Morgan, Alan Roulstone Copyright 2014
276 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

Geographies of disability have become a key research priority for many disability scholars and geographers. This edited collection, incorporating the work of leading international disability researchers, seeks to expand the current geographical frame operating within the realm of disability. Providing a critical and comprehensive examination of disability and spatial processes of exclusion and... Read more

Introduction: Disability, Space, Place and Policy: New Concepts, New Ideas, New Realities  Alan Roulstone, Karen Soldatic and Hannah Morgan  Section 1: Conceptualising Disability: Spaces and Places of Policy Exclusion  1. Space, Place and Policy Regimes: The Changing Contours of Disability and Citizenship  Rob Imrie  2. Emplacing Disabled Bodies/Minds in Criminal Law: Regulating Sex and Sexual Consent in Ireland’s Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993  Claire Edwards  3. The Spaces of Poverty: Renegotiating Place and Disability in the Global South  Shaun Grech  4. Accessible Public Space for the ‘Not Obviously Disabled’: Jeopardized Selfhood in an Era of Welfare Retraction  Alan Roulstone and Hannah Morgan  5. Temporalities and Spaces of Disability Social (In)Security: Australia and the UK Compared  Chris Grover and Karen Soldatic  Section 2: Experiencing Disability, Experiencing Space and Place  6. Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution? How Far do ‘Reasonable Adjustments’ Guarantee ‘Inclusive Access for Disabled Customers’?  Donna Reeve  7. Biographies of Place: Challenging Official Spatial Constructions of Sickness & Disability  Jon Warren & Kayleigh Garthwaite  8. Shaping Local Ethical Spaces of Care and Caring for People with Learning Disabilities  Edward Hall  9. Institutionalised Lives and Exclusion From Spaces of Intimacy for People with Learning Difficulties  Andrea Hollomotz and Alan Roulstone  10. Eroding the ‘Places’ of Support: Emerging Geographies of Support for People with Intellectual Disabilities  Andrew Power

Biography

Karen Soldatic is an International Researcher in Disability Policy Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia and an Adjunct Research Fellow of the Centre of Human Rights Education, Curtin University, Australia.

Hannah Morgan is Lecturer in Disability Studies in the Department of Sociology and member of the Centre for Disability Research at Lancaster University, UK.

Alan Roulstone is Professor of Disability Studies, University of Leeds, UK and has held senior posts in a number of universities.