Towards Enabling Geographies : "Disabled" Bodies and Minds in Society and Space

Chouinard, Vera. (Added Author). Hall, Edward. (Added Author). Wilton, Robert, Dr. (Added Author).

Summary: Bringing together the leading scholars in geography, this book puts forward the 'second wave' of geographical studies concerned with disability and embodied differences. It shows how this area of study has broadened and challenged conventional boundaries of 'disability'.

Record details

ISBN: 9781409403197
ISBN: 140940319X
ISBN: 1282525204
ISBN: 9781282525207
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource (xii, 270 pages).
Publisher: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Towards Enabling Geographies; 2 Disability, Embodiment and the Meaning of the Home; 3 Women's Changing Experiences of the Home and Life Inside it after Becoming Chronically Ill; 4 Enabling Cultures of Dis/order Online; 5 'It's my umbilical cord to the worldthe Internet': D/deaf and Hard of Hearing People's Information and Communication Practic; 6 The Geographies of Interdependence in the Lives of People with Intellectual Disabilities.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Restrictions: NLC students and staff only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.