Geographies of disability / Brendan Gleeson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gleeson, Brendan, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with disabilities.

People with disabilities--History.

Barrier-free design.

Spatial behavior.

Human geography.

Urban geography.

City planning.

Physical Description:

xii, 253 p. : ill., 2 maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Geographies of Disability explores the relationship between space and disability explaining how space, place and related concepts such as mobility shape the experiences of disabled people. The book is organised into three parts. Part one presents a critical appraisal of theories of disability, space and embodiment and develops a disability model. Part two takes an historical perspective and uses case studies to expose how the transition to capitalism affected the everyday lives of disabled people. Part three explores contemporary scenarios of disability: the Western city and the important policy realms of community care and accessibility regulation. Demonstrating and explaining why the production of space has disadvantaged disabled people both in the past and in contemporary societies, Geographies of Disability presents an important contribution to the major policy debates on disability in Western societies and offers new considerations for the broader debates on embodiment and space within Geography.

Contents:

pt. 1. A socio-spatial model of disability

pt. 2. Historical geographies of disability

pt. 3. Contemporary geographies of disability.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-242) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-134-68197-6

1-134-68198-4

1-283-70764-0

1-280-51763-8

0-203-02121-5

9780203021217

OCLC:

559705006