Robert Wilton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 284833 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert Wilton |
| PRENOMES | Robert |
| SOBRENOME | Wilton |
| ASSINATURA | WILTON R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9222-1916 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 628 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
You've got to learn how to be more vulnerable
Asking for Help was Really Helpful, but Definitely Hard to Say
A small body of work has examined the intersection of masculinity and disability. Key early studies focused attention on the ways in which men with acquired physical disabilities negotiated this dilemma, and the extent to which their strategies contested or reproduced gender norms. Recent work has called for greater attention to the diversity of men's experiences across disabilities, as well as the dynamic and shifting configurations of gender an…
All your value is wrapped up in your capabilities’
A qualitative analysis of housing and homemaking for people labelled/with intellectual disabilities in Ontario, Canada
In this article, we examine people labelled/with intellectual disabilities' experiences of their current homes and what they imagine or desire for their home in the future. Definitions of home in Canadian and Ontario policy are based on neoliberal and ableist notions of the dwelling and leave out other important elements of home. In this article, we will use quotes and artwork from a broader study to argue for a broadening of the definition of ho…
The influence of disability-related dwelling adaptations on household dwelling satisfaction
Much existing housing stock is inaccessible and does not adequately meet the needs of households with disabled members. As a result, households must often seek dwelling adaptations to improve the accessibility of their existing housing. However, adaptations can be costly, particularly in the context of limited state subsidies. This study examines the extent to which households with disabled members in Ontario, Canada's most populous province, hav…
Planning for inclusion? An assessment of Ontario's emergency preparedness guide for people with disabilities
Including people with intellectual disabilities in the mobilities turn
Geographic research about disability and mobility often foregrounds the built environment as a site of in/exclusion. People with intellectual disabilities (IDs) have been mostly absent from this scholarship. To respond to this gap, we draw from an in-depth set of ‘mobile interviews’ with people with IDs in Toronto, Canada. Using a thematic approach, this paper suggests that more-than-material relations matter to the everyday mobilities and immobi…
Disabling and enabling geographies
The geographies of disability have been an important and enduring part of Social and Cultural Geography since its inception. The journal has featured more than 100 research papers on different dimensions of disability, illness, impairment, ableism and (in)accessibility. In this virtual special issue, we selected ten of these papers to highlight key theoretical and empirical contributions made within the journal. These include the careful spatial …
An ambivalent atmosphere
I think they're treating me like a kid’
Geographers have made important contributions to scholarship on the lived experiences of masculinity, highlighting the ways in which identities emerge through embodied and emplaced performances that are shaped by intersecting dimensions of gender, sexuality, race, class and religion. While a small number of studies have considered masculinity in relation to physical disability, more work is needed to examine other experiences of disability and th…
Meanings and feelings of (Im)mobility in later life
Building collaboration in the co‐production of knowledge with people with intellectual disabilities about their everyday use of city space
We engage with scholarship in participatory geographies and critical disability studies to consider the difficulties and prospects of co‐producing knowledge with people with intellectual disabilities in a project examining their uses of urban public space. The research employed an inclusive, collaborative design and had an explicit focus on social change, articulated in the research process (e.g., the development of research and self‐advocacy ski…
Well Enough to Work? Social Enterprise Employment and the Geographies of Mental Health Recovery
This article examines the significance of paid work and workplaces for people living with mental ill health. Employment and workplaces have been largely absent in the mental health geography literature in part because of the persistent problems that people with mental ill health face in finding and retaining paid work; yet paid work and questions of productivity remain central to the very meaning of mental illness in capitalist society. To addres…
Fear and Distrust Within the Canadian Welfare System
While experiences of fear and distrust have been documented as a part of recipients’ interactions with disability benefits, there have been few attempts to explore how they are shaped by system features and their impact on employment pursuits. The purpose of this article is to unpack how fear and distrust emerge among people with mental illness who have recently entered the welfare system. Using an interpretative qualitative approach, the authors…
Shopping, social inclusion and the urban geographies of people with intellectual disability
In this paper, we examine the social geographies of people with intellectual disabilities. We focus particular attention on the significance of shopping and spaces of consumption as they relate to questions social inclusion and belonging in the lives of PWID. The focus on consumption offers a useful counterpoint to a prevailing policy emphasis on social inclusion through productive activities. The paper also contributes to the literature on intel…
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…
Disabled people, medical inadmissibility, and the differential politics of immigration
Key Messages Medical inadmissibility provisions in Canada's immigration law exclude some disabled applicants on the basis that they would place “excessive demand” on health and social services. Recent legal cases have contested this narrow reading of disability, but have yet to challenge the underlying assumptions of the provision
Social enterprises as spaces of encounter for mental health consumers
Recent geographical scholarship has suggested that disabled people's encounters with non‐disabled others might constitute an important mechanism for community participation and social inclusion. Existing studies recognise the importance of the immediate material and relational character of place in shaping the nature of encounters between disabled and non‐disabled people. Yet there has been little attention – beyond questions of physical access –…
Towards a relational geography of disability
In this paper we develop linkages between non-representational theory and emerging work by disability scholars in geography. We argue that non-representational thinking has the potential to advance our understanding of the complex and emergent geographies of dis/ability. We first outline key dimensions of non-representational thinking within geography. We then explore how this perspective has begun to, and might further inform, geographical schol…
Social enterprises as enabling workplaces for people with psychiatric disabilities
In recent years, western governments influenced by neoliberalism have emphasized paid work as a key route to social inclusion and community participation for people with psychiatric disabilities. Although paid work can offer many rewards, access to mainstream employment for people with psychiatric disabilities is difficult as they continue to encounter discrimination and a lack of workplace accommodation. One response to these challenges has been…
Using Space
No more of this macho bullshit’
Health geography has largely failed to engage with the topic of masculinity. This absence is surprising for several reasons, not least because health geography has close ties to social geography, where a burgeoning scholarship on masculinity has developed in recent years. In this paper, we contribute to what Thien and Del Casino ( ) envision as a more robust health geography for men. We do so through a detailed analysis of men's experiences withi…
You have to make a new way of life’
The concept of the ‘therapeutic landscape’ has been widely applied by health geographers over the past decade and a half. Despite its broad application, the concept has been criticized. Some scholars, for example, have argued that it adopts an overly positive view of the health effects of therapeutics settings. Others have noted a lack of attention to gender. In this article we respond to these limitations by engaging with feminist research on wo…
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…
Critical geographies of drugs and alcohol
Towards a relational geography of disability
In this paper we develop linkages between non-representational theory and emerging work by disability scholars in geography. We argue that non-representational thinking has the potential to advance our understanding of the complex and emergent geographies of dis/ability. We first outline key dimensions of non-representational thinking within geography. We then explore how this perspective has begun to, and might further inform, geographical schol…
Spaces of sobriety/sites of power
Seeing People Differently
In this paper the authors develop the concept of difference as it applies to people with disabilities. The production of difference is characterized as necessarily a social and a spatial process which allows the self to be partitioned from the Other. In the aggregate, such processes facilitate the stigmatization of whole classes of people and the institutionalization of rules for boundary maintenance between different groups. One important conseq…
Critical geographies of drugs and alcohol
Alternative spaces of ‘work’ and inclusion for disabled people
Western governments have emphasized paid work as a key route to social inclusion for disabled people. Although the proportion of disabled people in ‘mainstream’ employment has increased in recent decades, rates remain significantly below those for non-disabled people. Moreover, disabled workers continue to face discrimination and a lack of workplace accommodation. This paper critically examines the potential of three alternatives to the current s…
Spaces of abeyance, care and survival
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
No more of this macho bullshit’
Health geography has largely failed to engage with the topic of masculinity. This absence is surprising for several reasons, not least because health geography has close ties to social geography, where a burgeoning scholarship on masculinity has developed in recent years. In this paper, we contribute to what Thien and Del Casino ( ) envision as a more robust health geography for men. We do so through a detailed analysis of men's experiences withi…
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…
Putting policy into practice? Poverty and people with serious mental illness
Shopping, social inclusion and the urban geographies of people with intellectual disability
In this paper, we examine the social geographies of people with intellectual disabilities. We focus particular attention on the significance of shopping and spaces of consumption as they relate to questions social inclusion and belonging in the lives of PWID. The focus on consumption offers a useful counterpoint to a prevailing policy emphasis on social inclusion through productive activities. The paper also contributes to the literature on intel…
Stuck in transition? Exploring the spaces of employment training for youth with intellectual disability
Understanding, embracing, rejecting
Disabling and enabling geographies
The geographies of disability have been an important and enduring part of Social and Cultural Geography since its inception. The journal has featured more than 100 research papers on different dimensions of disability, illness, impairment, ableism and (in)accessibility. In this virtual special issue, we selected ten of these papers to highlight key theoretical and empirical contributions made within the journal. These include the careful spatial …
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…
Grounding Hierarchies of Acceptance
The NIMBY syndrome remains a complex and costly social problem. Research into public attitudes toward disability and difference using “hierarchies of acceptance” has provided considerable insight into the underlying causes of NIMBY reactions. However, hierarchy of acceptance studies have several limitations, most notably their reliance on quantitative survey research to gauge respondent reactions to disabled persons. In this paper, I use data fro…
You have to make a new way of life’
The concept of the ‘therapeutic landscape’ has been widely applied by health geographers over the past decade and a half. Despite its broad application, the concept has been criticized. Some scholars, for example, have argued that it adopts an overly positive view of the health effects of therapeutics settings. Others have noted a lack of attention to gender. In this article we respond to these limitations by engaging with feminist research on wo…
Poverty and Mental Health
Disability activism and the politics of scale
In this paper, we examine the role of spatial scale in mediating and shaping political struggles between disabled people and the state. Specifically, we draw on recent theoretical developments concerning the social construction of spatial scale to interpret two case studies of disability activism within Canada and Ireland. In particular, we provide an analysis of how successful the disability movement in each locale has been at ‘jumping scale’ an…
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
No Place like Home
In this paper we connect existing work on rooming houses to literature dealing with the meaningful nature of 'home' and its impact on individuals' health and social well-being. We then examine the extent to which rooming houses provide low-income tenants with 'homes', drawing from in-depth interviews with rooming-house tenants living in Hamilton, a city of 450 000 people in southern Ontario, Canada. Our analysis raises concerns about the capacity…
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
Seeing People Differently
In this paper the authors develop the concept of difference as it applies to people with disabilities. The production of difference is characterized as necessarily a social and a spatial process which allows the self to be partitioned from the Other. In the aggregate, such processes facilitate the stigmatization of whole classes of people and the institutionalization of rules for boundary maintenance between different groups. One important conseq…
Disability, Geography and Ethics
Grounding Hierarchies of Acceptance
The NIMBY syndrome remains a complex and costly social problem. Research into public attitudes toward disability and difference using “hierarchies of acceptance” has provided considerable insight into the underlying causes of NIMBY reactions. However, hierarchy of acceptance studies have several limitations, most notably their reliance on quantitative survey research to gauge respondent reactions to disabled persons. In this paper, I use data fro…
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
Disability activism and the politics of scale
In this paper, we examine the role of spatial scale in mediating and shaping political struggles between disabled people and the state. Specifically, we draw on recent theoretical developments concerning the social construction of spatial scale to interpret two case studies of disability activism within Canada and Ireland. In particular, we provide an analysis of how successful the disability movement in each locale has been at ‘jumping scale’ an…
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…
More responsibility, less control
This paper is concerned with the implications of recent Welfare State restructuring for psychiatric survivors' citizenship status. Using the Province of Ontario as a case study, the paper examines the extent to which recent change in mental health care and social assistance programs has worked to facilitate or constrain survivors' ability to exercise control over their lives. Despite recognition of the importance of survivors' participation in th…
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…
Putting policy into practice? Poverty and people with serious mental illness
No Place like Home
In this paper we connect existing work on rooming houses to literature dealing with the meaningful nature of 'home' and its impact on individuals' health and social well-being. We then examine the extent to which rooming houses provide low-income tenants with 'homes', drawing from in-depth interviews with rooming-house tenants living in Hamilton, a city of 450 000 people in southern Ontario, Canada. Our analysis raises concerns about the capacity…
Towards socio‐spatial inclusion? Disabled people, neoliberalism and the contemporary labour market
In many Western countries, disability assistance programmes have been restructured to encourage paid work. This paper examines the opportunities and barriers facing disabled people entering the labour market. Using data from semi‐structured interviews, the study explores employers’ conceptualization and treatment of disabled workers. While meaningful accommodation does occur, less promising outcomes are also common. For example, some disabled peo…
Spaces of sobriety/sites of power
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…
Stuck in transition? Exploring the spaces of employment training for youth with intellectual disability
Understanding, embracing, rejecting
Spaces of abeyance, care and survival
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…
Alternative spaces of ‘work’ and inclusion for disabled people
Western governments have emphasized paid work as a key route to social inclusion for disabled people. Although the proportion of disabled people in ‘mainstream’ employment has increased in recent decades, rates remain significantly below those for non-disabled people. Moreover, disabled workers continue to face discrimination and a lack of workplace accommodation. This paper critically examines the potential of three alternatives to the current s…
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