Ron Buliung

Datos Biográficos

ID1685170
NOMBRERon Buliung
NOMBRESRon
APELLIDOBuliung
FIRMABULIUNG R
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Toronto
ORCID0000-0003-4748-3321
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS52
TOTAL DE CITAS155
TOTAL COMO AUTOR52
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2002
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H6

  • Navigating inaccessibility

    Open AccessComeau Élyse, Ron Buliung et al.ARTICLEDisability & Society2026

    Despite decades of research, policy efforts, and rights-based legislation, disabled students and their families still encounter significant school transportation barriers that undermine their equitable access to education. This paper presents findings from interviews with disabled students and their parents in Canada’s Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Informed by a critical disability studies perspective, the analysis reveals the extensive ‘acc…

  • Delivering accessible school transportation services in Canada's Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area

    Open AccessElyse Comeau, Ron Buliung et al.ARTICLETransport Policy2026

    Accessible school transportation is often essential to disabled students’ equitable access to education. This study centres on the experiences of education professionals with disabled students’ school transportation in Ontario, Canada’s Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Grounded in a Critical Disability Studies perspective, the paper is organized around three key themes: operational barriers, communication complexities, and inclusive practices. …

  • Public toilet provision for people with disabilities

    Open AccessRhonda Cheryl Solomon, Ron Buliung et al.ARTICLEDisability & Society2025Referencias: 7

  • We are always in self-isolation”

    Open AccessFiona J Moola, Timothy Ross et al.ARTICLEWellbeing Space and Society2024

    The pandemic disproportionately influenced marginalized communities in North America. However, the social and spatial inequalities impacting marginalized rare genetic disease communities – such as those living with cystic fibrosis – have not been heard in mainstream pandemic narratives. Sensitized by the social determinants of health, this qualitative study explored the experiences of 12 youth with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) during the pandemic. Conten…

  • Minute Cities, ‘Walkability’ and Last Millimeter Problems

    Open AccessRon BuliungARTICLEDisability & Society2024Referencias: 1

    The 15-minute city concept is about planning and building cities so that most essential activities can be accessed within 15-minutes of a residence on foot or by bicycle.The possibilities and limitations of the concept for disabled persons have yet to be fully considered.Here I centre disability in a hopeful critique of concepts central to 15-minute city implementation.I argue that greater attention should be given to what I call last millimeter …

  • Mad’ transit and bad apples

    Open AccessRhonda Cheryl Solomon, Ron BuliungARTICLEDisability & Society2024

  • Understanding the experiences of parents of disabled and non-disabled children at playgrounds designed for disability inclusion

    Bianca Luna-Lupercio, Celina H Shirazipour et al.ARTICLEDisability & Society2024Citada por: 2Referencias: 2

    Disabled children and their families are often excluded from community play opportunities, including playgrounds. One potential solution is inclusive playgrounds. This study explores the experiences of parents of disabled and non-disabled children at playgrounds inspired by Principles of Universal Design. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 29 parents (16 parents of disabled children) located across four Canadian cities with newly buil…

  • Malevolent or Benevolent Brushstrokes

    Open AccessFiona J Moola, Stephanie Posa et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Disability…2023

    It may be important to situate disability historically to move toward understanding the rise of contemporary and often dominant ableist approaches to thinking about and representing disability today. The arts serve as “living artifacts” which store historical ideas about disabled bodies. Using a critical disability studies (CDS) lens, we explored the historical depiction of disability through Renaissance paintings created between 1300 and 1700. O…

  • Exploring the tactical mobilities and everyday activity of immigrant adolescents in a Canadian suburban city

    Haifa AlArasi, Ron BuliungARTICLEChildren s Geographies2023Citada por: 1Referencias: 23

    The concentration of immigrants in suburban neighborhoods and cities should motivate research into the mobility experiences of racialized and immigrant youth in the suburbs. While intentionally turning our attention to racialized suburban adolescents, we might also look to consider how activities and travel are embodied, reproduced, and embedded with the environment, the social, and the material. Drawing from an ethnographic study about non-schoo…

  • Bodies on display

    Open AccessRon Buliung, Ronald N BuliungARTICLEDisability & Society2023Referencias: 1

    What can a parking pad at the front of a house and agent orange, a defoliant used by the US military in its "Operation Ranch Hand" during the war in the Vietnam, possibly have in common?How unsafe does everything need to become to justify action?These are just a few of the questions at the centre of the stories I share in this piece; a piece that traces my/our experience trying to "get" something from our city to make access happen, and another s…

  • Engaging Disability Theory in Planning Practice

    Open AccessTimothy Ross, Ron Buliung et al.ARTICLEJournal of Planning Education and…2023Citada por: 5Referencias: 7

    In this commentary, we suggest that disability in planning practice is widely under-theorized. Planners must respond to normalized inattention to disability in the planning field and can begin doing so by engaging disability theory in practice. Five disability perspectives are discussed with a view to providing planners with a disability theory toolkit: (1) the medical, (2) social, and (3) biopsychosocial models; (4) a neoliberal viewpoint; and (…

  • Behind the Paintbrush

    Open AccessFiona J Moola, Ron Buliung et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Disability…2022

    Arts-based research (ABR) makes many promises, including the opportunity to engage with embodied ways of being and knowing, raise social and political concerns, as well as to address novel, participant-led inquiries. In this critical narrative review of the literature, we examine how disabled children and youth employ ABR methods in research contexts by carefully examining studies that use visual ABR. A secondary aim is to glean methodological in…

  • Parenting Between the Rules

    Open AccessFiona J Moola, Ron Buliung et al.ARTICLEChild & Youth Care Forum2022

  • Disability and cycling technology

    Open AccessGlen Norcliffe, Ron Buliung et al.ARTICLEDisability Studies Quarterly2022

    This article explores longstanding links between cycling and disability. Social models of disability and closely related theories on the social construction of technology are central to our approach. The former insists that disability is a social construct; the latter views technology as socially formed. Disabled persons engage in cycling for, among other things, the pleasure of moving about the city and countryside, parks and neighbourhoods, to …

  • Children’s Usage of Inclusive Playgrounds

    Open AccessM Edie James, Emma Jianopoulos et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Inclusive playgrounds that are designed to be physically accessible and welcoming to children with disabilities may provide equal and equitable access to play for all children. Using a naturalistic observational design, this study examines children's use of a playground designed to be accessible and inclusive for all ages and abilities. A modified version of the System for Observing Play and Recreation in Communities was used to collect child dat…

  • Disability and pedestrian road traffic injury

    Open AccessNaomi Schwartz, Ron Buliung et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2022

    Disability and ableism remain a nascent area of inquiry in road traffic injury research. A scoping review of academic literature was conducted to understand the state of knowledge on disability and pedestrian-motor vehicle collisions. Sixty-two eligible articles were identified and included. A significantly higher risk of pedestrian collisions, injuries, and fatalities was consistently found among disabled people. Risk factors included individual…

  • Experiences of food access among disabled adults in Toronto, Canada

    Open AccessNaomi Schwartz, Ron Buliung et al.ARTICLEDisability & Society2021Citada por: 1Referencias: 17

    Physical access to food is frequently studied using universal measures, like distance to stores, excluding experiences of people who move or travel differently, like disabled people who choose to use mobility aids. Aiming to understand disabling experiences of food access, mobile interviews were conducted with 23 disabled adults who use mobility aids and/or experienced physical barriers to mobility. This study uses a critical ableist studies pers…

  • Living the journey to school

    Open AccessRon Buliung, Ronald Buliung et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2021Referencias: 49

    Research about school travel and the built environment developed using positivist and post-positivist onto-epistemologies often relies heavily on travel surveys, activity diaries, GPS tracking, and the "objective" measurement of built environment features using geographical information systems and planimetric data. That work takes up and applies specialized disciplinary and practice-based language (e.g., planning and engineering) and concepts tha…

  • Fear of cycling

    Open AccessLéa Ravensbergen, Ron Buliung et al.ARTICLEJournal of Transport Geography2020Citada por: 6Referencias: 3

  • The built environment and active transportation safety in children and youth

    Open AccessBrent Hagel, Alison Macpherson et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    This program of research will identify the built environment associated with active transportation safety and form an evidence base from which municipalities can draw information to support change. Our team's national scope will be invaluable in providing information regarding the variability in built environment characteristics and is vital to producing evidence-based recommendations that will increase safe active transportation

  • Disability and food access and insecurity

    Open AccessNaomi Schwartz, Ron Buliung et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2019

    A scoping review was conducted, using a social ecological model approach, of 106 articles examining the effect of disability on food access and (in)security. Results of the review show a consistently increased risk of food insecurity among people with disabilities with a higher risk for mental health disabilities, and among disabled younger adults. Mediators of this relationship were underexplored. Disability was mainly conceptualized as a proble…

  • A visual ethnographic pilot study of school travel for families living with childhood disability

    Timothy Ross, Ron Buliung et al.ARTICLEChildren s Geographies2019Referencias: 17

    Children’s school transport has become a major research focus over the past 20 years, particularly within the fields of planning, transport geography, and children’s geographies. However, this work has rarely considered children living with disability. This article presents the pilot component of a visual ethnographic study about school transport within families living with childhood disability. It explains why we piloted the study, details the p…

  • Salute to Reviewers 2017–2018/ Hommage aux évaluateurs de 2017–2018

    Open AccessNadine Schuurman, Agrawal et al.ARTICLECanadian Geographies /…2019

  • Mobility impairments and geographic variation in vulnerability to household food insecurity

    Open AccessNaomi Schwartz, Valerie Tarasuk et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2019Citada por: 4Referencias: 3

    Studies indicate an association between disability and higher rates of household food insecurity (HFI). Geographic variation in this relationship has not been explored despite the potential influence of economic and political contexts, including costs of living and disability social assistance. This study examines the association between mobility impairment and HFI within and across Canada considering the possible role of population composition, …

  • Toward feminist geographies of cycling

    Open AccessLéa Ravensbergen, Ron Buliung et al.ARTICLEGeography Compass2019Citada por: 13Referencias: 67

    Using a systematic search strategy, this paper reviews the literature about gender and cycling and critically assesses existing approaches to study the topic. Most studies use a binary conceptualization of gender, a cross-sectional research design, and quantitative analysis to examine male-female differences in cycling behaviours, stated concerns, correlates, and barriers. The two hypotheses at the centre of most of this work are (1) that women c…