Accessibility Denied. Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Egard, Hanna; Wästerfors, David; Hansson, Kristofer

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the societal resistance to accessibility for persons with disabilities, and tries to set an example of how to study exclusion in a time when numerous policies promise inclusion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000512700
• Artikelnr.: 62861452

Autorenporträt

Hanna Egard is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Work, Malmö University, Sweden. Kristofer Hansson is Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work, Malmö University, Sweden. David Wästerfors is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Into the fields of stubborn obstacles and lingering
exclusion. Part 1 - City and transport. 1. Accessible enough? Legitimising
half-measures of accessibility in Swedish urban environments. 2. The bus
trip: Constraints, hierarchies and injustice. 3. Monitoring the standard -
here, now and in person: Detecting accessibility faults as an engaged
citizen. 4. Traveling insecurely: The association of security and
accessibility in public transport. Part 2 - Knowledge and education. 5.
Struggles for inclusion: The unrecognised toil of hearing-impaired
students. 6. Gatekeepers and gatekeeping: On participation and
marginalisation in everyday life. 7. Still waiting for the hand to be
raised: On being crip killjoys at an ableist university. 8. Access to
sexuality: Disabled people's experiences of multiple barriers. 9. New
barriers and new possibilities: Confronting language inaccessibility in and
around a pandemic. Part 3 - Institution, law and history. 10. It is
supposed to be a home: Barriers to everyday life decisions in group homes.
11. Making the law invisible: How bureaucratic resistance makes support
inaccessible. 12. Using building requirements as a means to create
inclusion: Accessibility and usability at a crossroads. Afterword.