Fieldwork and disabled students : discourses of exclusion and inclusion
Activity space ; Disability ; Discourse ; Higher education ; Practice of geography ; Social exclusion ; Students ; United Kingdom
The paper emphasizes a critical on fieldwork, highlighting the way in which fieldcourses can exclude disabled students. It discusses a survey of the experiences of providing learning support to disabled students undertaking fieldwork in geography
Domestic space and disability in nineteenth-century Melbourne, Australia
Australia ; Daily life ; Disability ; Historical geography ; Melbourne ; Social space ; Victoria
The paper contributes to the historical-geographical understanding of disability in Australia by exploring the spatial context of physical impairment in 19th century Melbourne. The paper seeks to locate disabled people by showing where and how
of important socio-spatial relationships that connected domestic space to other key sites in disabled people's everyday lives.
The papers contribute to the project of developing critical geographies of disabling differences. They shed light on how the social construction of disabled bodies and disabled environments helps to situate people within the global localist
Spaces of wellbeing for people with learning disabilities
Disability ; Emotion ; Health ; Social geography ; Space ; Well-being
The paper sets out the case for using wellbeing to rethink the poor health outcomes experienced by people with learning disabilities, which conventional tools of healthcare and health promotion have failed to address. The paper argues
that there is a potential within learning disability spaces and networks for wellbeing to flourish, through greater self-determination.
Precarious lives in the Global South : on being disabled in Guyana
This article examines impairment and disability as outcomes of processes of social embodiment that unfold in an unequal global capitalist order. Drawing on interviews conducted with disabled women and men in Guyana, it illustrates how colonial
and neo-colonial relations of power and processes of development give rise to material conditions of life such as extreme poverty and male violence that contribute to impairment and disability. It concludes by discussing the article's contributions
, challenges in developing southern perspectives on impairment and disability, and the need to address socio-spatial injustices experienced by disabled people in the global South.
Community care and disability : the limits to justice
The article considers the distinctive injustices experienced by disabled people and assesses recent institutional strategies which have sought to reduce these inequities and exclusions. A critical area of state policy practice in capitalist
Accessibility ; Activity space ; Disability ; Place ; Social space ; Town ; Urban area ; Urban transport
This special issue presents a range of papers which in different ways, demonstrate the diverse and multiple spatialities of disablement. They represent a small, but growing, area of scolarship which is documenting the diverse ways in which disabled
Social exclusion and the disabled : an accessibility approach
Accessibility ; Activity space ; Disability ; Measurement ; New York State ; Regression analysis ; Social exclusion ; Society ; Trip ; United States of America