Robert D Wilton
Biographic Data
| ID | 256181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert D Wilton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert D |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilton |
| SIGNATURE | WILTON R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 164 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
There is always this feeling of otherness’
This paper explores the experiences of immigrant women with visual impairment in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) of Canada. Conceptually, the paper draws from feminist disability theory and critical scholarship on blindness to consider the discursive and material processes shaping women’s experiences across different socio-cultural contexts. Empirically, the paper draws from in-depth interviews with seven women. The analysis is organ…
Investigating the Effects of Social Influence on the Choice to Telework
This paper contributes to the telework literature by investigating empirically the impact of social influence on the decision to telework. An innovative web-based telework survey was developed and used to obtain data from a sample of employees of a large postsecondary institution in Ontario, Canada, between January and March 2009. A unique feature of the survey instrument is that it allowed employees to easily construct their workplace social net…
The Geographies of Intoxicants
As social geographers of health, we wish to review the field of geography and intoxicants. By intoxicants, we mean substances that have psychoactive, consciousness-altering effects. This article defines the geography of intoxicants, and provides a selective review of geographically inclined research that has focused on (i) the consumption of intoxicants, especially its regulation within public spaces, (ii) intoxicants and public health, especiall…
Workers with disabilities and the challenges of emotional labour
This paper explores the implications of emotional labour for workers with disabilities, drawing on qualitative data from interviews with 59 respondents who had disabilities and who worked in service sector occupations. The analysis illustrates that employer demands for emotional labour may prove difficult for workers with a range of disabilities, including psychiatric diagnoses, learning difficulties and physical impairments. Analysis also points…
Understanding, embracing, rejecting
Emerging scholarship in the geographies of disability
From flexibility to accommodation? Disabled people and the reinvention of paid work
Scholarship on ‘flexible’ work and changing organizational cultures has had little to say about the implications of these developments for disabled people. Drawing on in‐depth interviews, this paper examines the ways in which disabled workers struggle over accommodations in contemporary workplaces. Analysis reveals a number of themes concerning training, speed at work, and emotional and aesthetic labour. At their core, these themes concern the ab…
Poverty and Mental Health
Locating physical disability in Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis
In this paper, I use psychoanalytic theory to look at the meaning of disability within an ableist culture, and its relationship to issues of sexuality and death. I suggest that while disability has not been a central focus of psychoanalysis, it has been employed to stand in for something else, and this has had important implications for disability that have yet to be fully explored. Particular emphasis is placed on the use of disability as a 'sym…
Colouring special needs
In this paper I examine the importance of 'race' and racialization in conflicts over the siting of human service facilities. Little consideration has been given to the way in which racialization shapes community reactions to client groups, and the idea that NIMBY reactions facilitate the reproduction of white privilege. I explore these issues using a case study of community opposition to 'special needs' housing in San Pedro, California. Analysis …
Toward an Understanding of the Spatiality of Social Movements
In this paper, we examine a labor struggle between predominantly Latino service workers and the University of Southern California, the largest private employer in the City of Los Angeles. This struggle is part of a broader revival of the American labor movement, as some unions return to mass action and community-labor alliances. The re-emergence of labor as a social movement allows us to ask new questions about power and resistance. In particular…
Disability, Geography and Ethics
Gender, Work, and Space . Susan Hanson and Geraldine Pratt; Space, Place, and Gender . Doreen Massey, and Women, Work, and Place . Audrey Kobayashi, editor, and Gender in Urban Research . Judith A. Ga…
Diminished worlds? The geography of everyday life with HIV/Aids
The World of Homelessness according to Jencks
Power and community
Colouring special needs
In this paper I examine the importance of 'race' and racialization in conflicts over the siting of human service facilities. Little consideration has been given to the way in which racialization shapes community reactions to client groups, and the idea that NIMBY reactions facilitate the reproduction of white privilege. I explore these issues using a case study of community opposition to 'special needs' housing in San Pedro, California. Analysis …
Diminished worlds? The geography of everyday life with HIV/Aids
From flexibility to accommodation? Disabled people and the reinvention of paid work
Scholarship on ‘flexible’ work and changing organizational cultures has had little to say about the implications of these developments for disabled people. Drawing on in‐depth interviews, this paper examines the ways in which disabled workers struggle over accommodations in contemporary workplaces. Analysis reveals a number of themes concerning training, speed at work, and emotional and aesthetic labour. At their core, these themes concern the ab…
Locating physical disability in Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis
In this paper, I use psychoanalytic theory to look at the meaning of disability within an ableist culture, and its relationship to issues of sexuality and death. I suggest that while disability has not been a central focus of psychoanalysis, it has been employed to stand in for something else, and this has had important implications for disability that have yet to be fully explored. Particular emphasis is placed on the use of disability as a 'sym…
Understanding, embracing, rejecting
The Geographies of Intoxicants
As social geographers of health, we wish to review the field of geography and intoxicants. By intoxicants, we mean substances that have psychoactive, consciousness-altering effects. This article defines the geography of intoxicants, and provides a selective review of geographically inclined research that has focused on (i) the consumption of intoxicants, especially its regulation within public spaces, (ii) intoxicants and public health, especiall…
Toward an Understanding of the Spatiality of Social Movements
In this paper, we examine a labor struggle between predominantly Latino service workers and the University of Southern California, the largest private employer in the City of Los Angeles. This struggle is part of a broader revival of the American labor movement, as some unions return to mass action and community-labor alliances. The re-emergence of labor as a social movement allows us to ask new questions about power and resistance. In particular…
Poverty and Mental Health
Investigating the Effects of Social Influence on the Choice to Telework
This paper contributes to the telework literature by investigating empirically the impact of social influence on the decision to telework. An innovative web-based telework survey was developed and used to obtain data from a sample of employees of a large postsecondary institution in Ontario, Canada, between January and March 2009. A unique feature of the survey instrument is that it allowed employees to easily construct their workplace social net…
Emerging scholarship in the geographies of disability
Workers with disabilities and the challenges of emotional labour
This paper explores the implications of emotional labour for workers with disabilities, drawing on qualitative data from interviews with 59 respondents who had disabilities and who worked in service sector occupations. The analysis illustrates that employer demands for emotional labour may prove difficult for workers with a range of disabilities, including psychiatric diagnoses, learning difficulties and physical impairments. Analysis also points…
There is always this feeling of otherness’
This paper explores the experiences of immigrant women with visual impairment in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) of Canada. Conceptually, the paper draws from feminist disability theory and critical scholarship on blindness to consider the discursive and material processes shaping women’s experiences across different socio-cultural contexts. Empirically, the paper draws from in-depth interviews with seven women. The analysis is organ…
Power and community
Disability, Geography and Ethics
Power and community
Gender, Work, and Space . Susan Hanson and Geraldine Pratt; Space, Place, and Gender . Doreen Massey, and Women, Work, and Place . Audrey Kobayashi, editor, and Gender in Urban Research . Judith A. Ga…
Diminished worlds? The geography of everyday life with HIV/Aids
The World of Homelessness according to Jencks
Disability, Geography and Ethics
Colouring special needs
In this paper I examine the importance of 'race' and racialization in conflicts over the siting of human service facilities. Little consideration has been given to the way in which racialization shapes community reactions to client groups, and the idea that NIMBY reactions facilitate the reproduction of white privilege. I explore these issues using a case study of community opposition to 'special needs' housing in San Pedro, California. Analysis …
Toward an Understanding of the Spatiality of Social Movements
In this paper, we examine a labor struggle between predominantly Latino service workers and the University of Southern California, the largest private employer in the City of Los Angeles. This struggle is part of a broader revival of the American labor movement, as some unions return to mass action and community-labor alliances. The re-emergence of labor as a social movement allows us to ask new questions about power and resistance. In particular…
Poverty and Mental Health
Locating physical disability in Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis
In this paper, I use psychoanalytic theory to look at the meaning of disability within an ableist culture, and its relationship to issues of sexuality and death. I suggest that while disability has not been a central focus of psychoanalysis, it has been employed to stand in for something else, and this has had important implications for disability that have yet to be fully explored. Particular emphasis is placed on the use of disability as a 'sym…
From flexibility to accommodation? Disabled people and the reinvention of paid work
Scholarship on ‘flexible’ work and changing organizational cultures has had little to say about the implications of these developments for disabled people. Drawing on in‐depth interviews, this paper examines the ways in which disabled workers struggle over accommodations in contemporary workplaces. Analysis reveals a number of themes concerning training, speed at work, and emotional and aesthetic labour. At their core, these themes concern the ab…
Emerging scholarship in the geographies of disability
Workers with disabilities and the challenges of emotional labour
This paper explores the implications of emotional labour for workers with disabilities, drawing on qualitative data from interviews with 59 respondents who had disabilities and who worked in service sector occupations. The analysis illustrates that employer demands for emotional labour may prove difficult for workers with a range of disabilities, including psychiatric diagnoses, learning difficulties and physical impairments. Analysis also points…
Understanding, embracing, rejecting
The Geographies of Intoxicants
As social geographers of health, we wish to review the field of geography and intoxicants. By intoxicants, we mean substances that have psychoactive, consciousness-altering effects. This article defines the geography of intoxicants, and provides a selective review of geographically inclined research that has focused on (i) the consumption of intoxicants, especially its regulation within public spaces, (ii) intoxicants and public health, especiall…
Investigating the Effects of Social Influence on the Choice to Telework
This paper contributes to the telework literature by investigating empirically the impact of social influence on the decision to telework. An innovative web-based telework survey was developed and used to obtain data from a sample of employees of a large postsecondary institution in Ontario, Canada, between January and March 2009. A unique feature of the survey instrument is that it allowed employees to easily construct their workplace social net…
There is always this feeling of otherness’
This paper explores the experiences of immigrant women with visual impairment in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) of Canada. Conceptually, the paper draws from feminist disability theory and critical scholarship on blindness to consider the discursive and material processes shaping women’s experiences across different socio-cultural contexts. Empirically, the paper draws from in-depth interviews with seven women. The analysis is organ…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (4 works)