Biometric geographies, mobility and disability: biologies of culpability and the biologised spaces of (post)modernity

Maddern, J. and Stewart, E. (2010) Biometric geographies, mobility and disability: biologies of culpability and the biologised spaces of (post)modernity. In: Chouinard, V., Hall, E. and Wilton, R. (eds.) Towards Enabling Geographies: 'Disabled' Bodies and Minds in Society and Space. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey, pp. 237-252. ISBN 9780754675617

Abstract

The widespread changes occurring in the way mobility is organised globally means that geographers researching disability are increasingly concerned with the relationship between disabled persons and technologies as well as questions of citizenship and social inclusion (Crooks, Dorn and Wilton 2008). Research on the spatialities of disability has focused upon the ways in which disabled people’s lives are constitutive of interactions between their (perceived) impaired bodies and the places those bodies inhabit and move through (Imrie 2001). This has included a focus upon the local landscape to explore the physical construction and demarcation of urban spaces as well as elucidating ableist values etched across urban and rural landscapes.

• Item Type: Book Sections
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Stewart, Dr Emma
• Authors: Maddern, J., and Stewart, E.
• College/School: College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Health & Wellbeing > MRC/CSO SPHSU
• Publisher: Ashgate
• ISBN: 9780754675617

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