1st Edition
Disability and the Making of Place
List of figures
List of contributors
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction: disability and the making of place
Claire Edwards, Edward Hall, Andrew Power and Robert Wilton
Chapter 2 Belonging, inclusion and resistance: people with intellectual disabilities’ experiences in public libraries
Ilan Wiesel, Ellen van Holstein, Christine Bigby and Brendan Gleeson
Chapter 3 Building everyday learning places in an online world: young disabled people’s embodied negotiation of vocational learning and training
Claire Edwards and Gill Harold
Chapter 4 The assemblage of the accessible parking space and psycho-emotional disablism
Vera Kubenz
Chapter 5 Making space in an ableist world: disability geographies in post-apartheid South Africa
Brian Watermeyer, Vic McKinney and Randall Wynkwart
Chapter 6 Close enough for comfort: socio-material (dis)comforts of young people with an ostomy in everyday space
Poppy Budworth
Chapter 7 Building lives together: the collective hustle of disabled people within the personalisation of care and support
Edward Hall and Andrew Power
Chapter 8 In their own voices: disability, space, and power dynamics in Ghana
Augustina Naami
Chapter 9 Placing disability in times of climate and ecological breakdown
Sarah L. Bell and Kate Morley
Chapter 10 The gentle art of making autistic islands
Alberto Vanolo
Chapter 11 Giving disability a place in the home: visual impairment, guide dogs, and multi-species transitions
Daniel Muñoz and Florencia Herrera
Chapter 12 ‘You’re not a man; you’re a man on a scooter’: negotiating chronic illness and masculinity in place.
Robert Wilton and Ann Fudge Schormans
Chapter 13 Afterword: futurity and the spatialities of disability
Rob Imrie
Index
Biography
Claire Edwards is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Studies at University College Cork in Ireland. Her research is concerned with exploring the everyday dynamics of socio-spatial disablism in disabled people’s lives, and with challenging ‘taken-for-granted’ assumptions about disability which underpin law and social policy.
Edward Hall is a Reader in Human Geography in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Dundee, Scotland. His research is concerned with the social geographies of people with learning disabilities, with particular attention to social inclusion and belonging, the changing landscape of social care and support, and experiences of hate crime.
Andrew Power is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Southampton in the UK. His research interests concern social care and disability, with a particular focus on the forms of support for disabled people, across the community and in care settings. He also has an allied interest in the relational geographies of the voluntary sector and family care.
Robert Wilton is a Professor in the School of Earth, Environment & Society at McMaster University in Hamilton in Canada. His research is broadly concerned with disabled people’s experiences of, and struggles over, social inclusion/exclusion. He has focused particular attention on access to paid work in both ‘mainstream’ and social economies.
“This timely book calls for a greater engagement with place in disability scholarship. Within its pages, international authors navigate fragmented and unequal landscapes, shaped by ableism and austerity, crucially, to advocate for disability justice in, with and about place.”
Katherine Runswick-Cole, University of Sheffield, UK
“A major, critically important, timely and original intervention, foregrounding the political power of geography to disability studies and the experience of disability. This has never been more critical as disabled people continue to be at the sharp end of a range of geographical-political processes, from climate change to government disinvestment, with the rise of AI and far right politics as emerging contexts. Essential reading for geographers and disability researchers alike.”
Louise Holt, Professor of Human Geography, Loughborough University, UK
