Visual Impairment in the City
Young People’s Social Strategies for Independent Mobility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10860010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nancy Worth (0000-0002-2379-526X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 574-586 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0042098012468898 |
| OpenAlex | W2093738955 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 46 |
This article examines the mobility strategies that visually impaired (VI) young people employ as they negotiate their daily lives in the city. In contrast to research which foregrounds difficulties navigating the built environment, the article provides new insights into how VI young people engage with the city as a social space, arguing that VI young people’s goal of achieving ‘unremarkable’ mobility is constrained by an ableist society that constantly marks them out, frustrating goals of independent mobility which are important to young people’s transitions to adulthood. Drawing on young people’s narratives, three mobility strategies of young people are examined: concealing VI with friends, performing VI with white canes and travelling with guide dogs. Each is evaluated for its potential to help VI young people achieve identities as ‘competent spatial actors
Developmental psychology · Narrative · Negotiation · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Visual impairment · Visually impaired · Young adult · Children's Rights and Participation · Computer Science · Disability Rights and Representation · Gender Studies · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban Transport and Accessibility
Urban refugee children's integration through a spatial lens
Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture
Visually Impaired Persons and Social Encounters in Central Melbourne
Mapping the importance of specific physical elements in urban space for blind and visually impaired people
Troubling ambulant research
The shops were only made for people who could walk
Mobility barriers and enablers and their implications for the wellbeing of disabled children and young people in Aotearoa New Zealand
Interdependent temporalities and the everyday mobilities of visually impaired young people
Traveling with blindness
Incongruous encounters
(Micro)mobility, disability and resilience
The limitations of using activity space measurements for representing the mobilities of individuals with visual impairment
The mobility impaired and the built environment in Kumasi
Charting the progress and future directions of disability studies in human geography
Exploring youth narratives between dominant and alternative urban imaginaries
Traveling with a guide dog
Introduction
Negotiating nature's weather worlds in the context of life with sight impairment
Experience without Sight
Discapacidad visual y multisensorialidad. Caminando en Lima
Lived Experiences of Learning to Use a Long Cane
Experiencing nature with sight impairment
Disabilities, urban natures and children's outdoor play
Disability, hostility and everyday geographies of un/safety
Refusal, circulation, refuge
The non-visual image of the city
Bound to the environment
Race, Place and Globalization
Sociologies of Disability and Illness
In Place/Out of Place
“Sense and Sensibility”
The Politics of Recognition
Theorizing and Researching Intersectionality
Same Sex Intimacies
Children's Geographies
The struggle to belong
Freedom of the city
Doing consumption and sitting cars
Street Literacy
Inventing Adulthoods
Between cosmopolitanism and the locals
The Myth of Bodily Perfection
Disability studies in human geography
Understanding spatial concepts at the geographic scale without the use of vision
Finding Oneself, Losing Oneself
Bourdieu's Habitus, Social Class and the Spatial Worlds of Visually Impaired Children
Geography and Vision-Impaired and Blind Populations
Geography and the Disabled
Playing the ‘disabled role’ in local travel
Is Children's Independent Mobility Really Independent? A Study of Children's Mobility Combining Ethnography and GPS/Mobile Phone Technologies1
The Road Less Travelled - New Directions in Children's and Young People's Mobility
Geographies of Youth/Young People
Compulsory Bodies
Cultural Representation of Disabled People
Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology and the Body-in-Space Encounters of Visually Impaired Children
Finding oneself, losing oneself
Bodies and Spaces
Disability and the Urban Environment
"I Don't Know Why They Call it the Lake District They Might as Well Call it the Rock District!" The Workings of Humour and Laughter in Research with Members of Visually Impaired Walking Groups
Disability and Discourses of Mobility and Movement
Transitional geographies
Girls, consumption space and the contradictions ofhanging out in the city
Re-Defining 'Norms
Migration, Place and Class
Making Use of Audio Diaries in Research with Young People
The Impact of Guide Dogs on the Identity of People with Visual Impairments
Leaving Home in Britain and Spain
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |