Towards Enabling Geographies : 'Disabled' Bodies and Minds in Society and Space
Towards Enabling Geographies : 'Disabled' Bodies and Minds in Society and Space
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Author(s): Hall, Edward
ISBN No.: 9781138248670
Pages: 286
Year: 201609
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 83.77
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (On Demand)

Contents: Preface; Introduction: towards enabling geographies, Vera Chouinard, Edward Hall and Robert Wilton; Disability, embodiment and the meaning of the home, Rob Imrie; Women's changing experiences of the home and life inside it after becoming chronically ill, Valorie A Crooks; Enabling cultures of dis/order online, Joyce Davidson and Hester Parr; 'It's my umbilical cord to the world . the internet': d/deaf and hard of hearing people's information and communication practices, Tracey Skelton and Gill Valentine; The geographies of interdependence in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, Andrew Power; 563 miles: a matter of long-distance caring by siblings of siblings with intellectual and developmental disabilities, Deborah Metzel; Young people with socio-emotional differences: theorising disability and destabilising socio-emotional norms, Louise Holt; Evaluating workfare: disability, policy and the role of geography, Claire Edwards; Placing little people: dwarfism and the geographies of everyday life, Robert J. Kruse II; The disabling affects of fat: the emotional and material geographies of some women who live in Hamilton, New Zealand, Robyn Longhurst; Embodied ageing in place: what does it mean to grow old?, Janine L. Wiles and Ruth E.S. Allen; Biometric geographies, mobility and disability: biologies of culpability and the biologised spaces of (post)modernity, Joanne Maddern and Emma Stewart; Geographies of disability: reflections on new body knowledges, Isabel Dyck; Index.


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