| Description |
1 online resource (199 pages) |
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Routledge Advances in Disability Studies |
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Routledge advances in disability studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms; Introduction: disability, space, place and policy: new concepts, new ideas, new realities; PART I Conceptualising disability: spaces and places of policy exclusion; 1 Space, place and policy regimes: the changing contours of disability and citizenship; 2 Emplacing disabled bodies/minds in criminal law: regulating sex and sexual consent in Ireland's Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993; 3 The spaces of poverty: renegotiating place and disability in the global South |
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4 Accessible public space for the 'not obviously disabled': jeopardised selfhood in an era of welfare retraction5 Temporalities and spaces of disability social (in)security: Australia and the UK compared; PART II 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'?; 7 Biographies of place: challenging official spatial constructions of sickness and disability; 8 Shaping local ethical spaces of care and caring for people with learning disabilities |
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9 Institutionalised lives and exclusion from spaces of intimacy for people with learning difficulties10 Eroding the collective 'places' of support: emerging geographies of personalisation for people with intellectual disabilities; Index |
| Summary |
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 inclusion for disabled people, the book uniquely brings together insights from disability studies, spatial geographies and social policy with the purpose of exploring how spatial factors shape, limit |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
People with disabilities -- Government policy
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Public spaces.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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People with disabilities -- Government policy
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Public spaces
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Morgan, Hannah
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Roulstone, Alan, 1962-
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| ISBN |
9781135008772 |
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1135008779 |
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