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Incorporating the work of leading international disability researchers, and with a global focus this volume brings together insights from disability studies, spatial geographies and social policy with the purpose of exploring how spatial factors shape, limit or enhance policy towards, and the experiences of, disabled people.
List of contents
Introduction: Disability, Space, Place and Policy: New Concepts, New Ideas, New Realities Alan Roulstone, Karen Soldatic and Hannah Morgan Section 1: Conceptualising Disability: Spaces and Places of Policy Exclusion 1. Space, Place and Policy Regimes: The Changing Contours of Disability and Citizenship Rob Imrie 2. Emplacing Disabled Bodies/Minds in Criminal Law: Regulating Sex and Sexual Consent in Ireland’s Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993 Claire Edwards 3. The Spaces of Poverty: Renegotiating Place and Disability in the Global South Shaun Grech 4. Accessible Public Space for the ‘Not Obviously Disabled’: Jeopardized Selfhood in an Era of Welfare Retraction Alan Roulstone and Hannah Morgan 5. Temporalities and Spaces of Disability Social (In)Security: Australia and the UK Compared Chris Grover and Karen Soldatic Section 2: 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’? Donna Reeve 7. Biographies of Place: Challenging Official Spatial Constructions of Sickness & Disability Jon Warren & Kayleigh Garthwaite 8. Shaping Local Ethical Spaces of Care and Caring for People with Learning Disabilities Edward Hall 9. Institutionalised Lives and Exclusion From Spaces of Intimacy for People with Learning Difficulties Andrea Hollomotz and Alan Roulstone 10. Eroding the ‘Places’ of Support: Emerging Geographies of Support for People with Intellectual Disabilities Andrew Power
About the author
Karen Soldatic is an International Researcher in Disability Policy Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia and an Adjunct Research Fellow of the Centre of Human Rights Education, Curtin University, Australia.
Hannah Morgan is Lecturer in Disability Studies in the Department of Sociology and member of the Centre for Disability Research at Lancaster University, UK.
Alan Roulstone is Professor of Disability Studies, University of Leeds, UK and has held senior posts in a number of universities.
Summary
Incorporating the work of leading international disability researchers, and with a global focus this volume brings together insights from disability studies, spatial geographies and social policy with the purpose of exploring how spatial factors shape, limit or enhance policy towards, and the experiences of, disabled people.
