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Accessibility Denied. Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities

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Access to sexuality
Accessibility Measures
Accessibility Officer
Accessible enough? Legitimising half-measures of accessibility in Swedish urban environments
Accessible Public Transport
Administrative Procedure Act
Bus Driver
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Chronic
Collaborative Autoethnography
CRPD
Deaf People
Disabled People
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ethnographic methods
Follow
Gatekeepers and gatekeeping
Group Homes
Hearing Impairment
institutional barriers
Intellectual Disabilities
It is supposed to be a home
Making the law invisible
Monitoring the standard here
New barriers and new possibilities
Nordic welfare research
now and in person
Personal Assistance
policy implementation Sweden
Portable Ramp
Public Transport
Public Transport Organisation
qualitative disability studies
resistance to disability inclusion policies
SFS
social exclusion analysis
Sohlberg
Still waiting for the hand to be raised
Struggles for inclusion
Swedish Disability Policy
Swedish Parliament
The bus trip
Time Geographical Approach
Traveling insecurely
UN
Using building requirements as a means to create inclusion
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780367637309
  • Weight: 320g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 31 May 2023
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

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.

With 12 chapters organised in three parts, the book takes a comprehensive approach to accessibility, covering transport and communication, knowledge and education, law and organisation. Topics within a wide cross-disciplinary field are covered, including disability studies, social work, sociology, ethnology, social anthropology, and history. The main example is Sweden, with its implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities within the context of the Nordic welfare state. By identifying and discussing persistent social and cultural conditions as well as recurring situations and interactions that nurture resistance to advancing accessibility, despite various strong laws promoting it, the book’s conclusions are widely transferable. It argues for the value of alternating between methods, theoretical perspectives, and datasets to explore how new arenas, resources and technologies cause new accessibility concerns — and possibilities — for persons living with impairments. We need to be able to follow actors closely to uncover how they feel, act, and argue, but also to connect to wider discursive and institutional patterns and systems.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students of disability studies, social work, sociology, ethnology, social anthropology, political science, and organisation studies.
About

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.