Towards Enabling Geographies

'Towards Enabling Geographies' brings together leading scholars to showcase the 'second wave' of geographical studies concerned with disability and embodied differences. The book demonstrates the value of a spatial conceptualization of disability and disablement, whilst examining how this conceptualization can be further developed and refined.

Vera Chouinard, Professor, School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University, Canada, Dr. Edward Hall, Geography, School of Social and Environmental Sciences, University of Dundee, UK and Robert Wilton, McMaster University, Canada.

Contents: Preface; Introduction: towards enabling geographies, Vera Chouinard, Edward Hall and Robert Wilton; Disability, embodiment and the meaning of the home, Rob Imrie; Women's changing experiences of the home and life inside it after becoming chronically ill, Valorie A Crooks; Enabling cultures of dis/order online, Joyce Davidson and Hester Parr; 'It's my umbilical cord to the world ... the internet': d/deaf and hard of hearing people's information and communication practices, Tracey Skelton and Gill Valentine; The geographies of interdependence in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, Andrew Power; 563 miles: a matter of long-distance caring by siblings of siblings with intellectual and developmental disabilities, Deborah Metzel; Young people with socio-emotional differences: theorising disability and destabilising socio-emotional norms, Louise Holt; Evaluating workfare: disability, policy and the role of geography, Claire Edwards; Placing little people: dwarfism and the geographies of everyday life, Robert J. Kruse II; The disabling affects of fat: the emotional and material geographies of some women who live in Hamilton, New Zealand, Robyn Longhurst; Embodied ageing in place: what does it mean to grow old?, Janine L. Wiles and Ruth E.S. Allen; Biometric geographies, mobility and disability: biologies of culpability and the biologised spaces of (post)modernity, Joanne Maddern and Emma Stewart; Geographies of disability: reflections on new body knowledges, Isabel Dyck; Index.