By Ruth Butler, Hester Parr
Mind and physique Spaces highlights new foreign learn from Britain, united states, Canada and Australia, on physically impairment, psychological health and wellbeing and disabled peoples social worlds. The participants speak about quite a few present concerns including:
* old conceptions of the physique and behaviour
* modern political activism
* concerns of id and employment
* obtainable housing
* parenthood and baby carers
* psychiatric drugs use
* masculinity and sexuality
* autobiography
* social exclusion and inclusion.
The members are: Hester Parr, Ruth Butler, Rob Imrie, Michael L. Dorn, Deborah Carter Park, John Radford, Brendan Gleeson, Isabel Dyck, Edward corridor, Pamela Moss, Gill Valentine, Christine Milligan, vegetation Gathorne-Hardy, Jane Stables, Fiona Smith and Vera Chouinard.
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G. and Timmermans, H. (1990) ‘Applications of behavioural research on spatial problems: I cognition’, Progress in Human Geography 14:57–99. Hahn, H. (1986) ‘Disability and the urban environment: a perspective on Los Angeles’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 4:273–88. Dear (eds) The Power of Geography: How Territory Shapes Social Life, London: Unwin Hyman. F. (1996) Disability and the City, London: Paul Chapman. A. D. thesis, McMaster University. ——(1991) ‘The place of health in the health of the place: the case of the Hokianga special medical area’, Social Science and Medicine 33, 4:519–30.
However, one also needs to look beyond what Weisman (1992) refers to as failed architecture or prejudiced architects towards the totality of structures framing the social oppression and marginalisation of disabled people within the built environment. Architects are connected to wider cost and material imperatives which inhibit or restrict the scope for design beyond prescribed limits (see Knox 1987). In this sense, an explication of architects’ conceptions of bodies in space is only part of a wider endeavour to understand the interrelationships between design theory, practice, and people’s experiences of buildings and the built environment.
Not only are social attitudes important in defining what is and is not accepted as ‘normal’ (a question which Golledge does not see as overly problematic except to argue that ‘normal’ functioning does not happen for the ‘disabled’ person), but such boundary markers fuel and inform exclusionary actions from workplaces, night clubs, libraries, sex shops and myriad everyday spaces. Golledge may be annoyed with social and cultural geography for pointing out the ableism in social attitudes and actions, and he might wish that more could be written which would practically help disabled people in terms of spatial modelling and navigation technologies.