Skip to main content

ETHNOS_APP

Home • Search • Journals • List 0

Good ramps, bad ramps

Centralized design standards and disability access in urban Russian infrastructure

Bibliographic Data

ID2260883
AuthorsCassandra Hartblay (0000-0002-5459-4719, Department of Communication; University of California, San Diego; 9500 Gilman Drive #0503 La Jolla CA 92093-0503, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume44
Issue1
Pages9-22
Publication date2017-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/amet.12422
OpenAlexW2783566574
LanguageEN
Citations received27
References cited40

Accessible design seeks to reconfigure the social by restructuring the material. As the idea moves globally, it becomes entwined in local logics of moral obligations between citizens and the state. Wheelchair users in the city of Petrozavodsk, in northwestern Russia, talk about inaccessible infrastructure as being embedded in moral relationships. In their stories, hierarchies of expertise diffuse responsibility for outcomes and devalue user knowledge. When accessible design elements are installed to meet minimum standards, they are "just for the check mark" and often do not "work." Wheelchair ramps produce value for businesses or governments by representing an idea of access that circulates as a commodity. Failed accessible design draws attention to a moral field governing the responsibilities of actors to produce a "good" built environment, imbricated in teleologies of progress. [disability, design, infrastructure, access, ramps, postsocialism, Russia] Смысл идеи создания «доступной среды» заключается не просто в реконструкции материальных объектов и создании нового удобного дизайна, но, главным образом, в перестройке паттернов мышления и социальных отношений. Глобальное продвижение данной идеи в отдельных странах и культурах сопровождается столкновением новых смыслов с уже существующими местными представлениями о моральных обязательствах между государством и его гражданами. Так, жители северо-запада России, города Петрозаводска, использующие инвалидные коляски (инвалиды колясочники) рассказывают о недоступности местной инфраструктуры, которая существует именно из-за устоявшихся моральных порядков. В своих интервью инвалиды колясочники объясняют, что внедрение новых стандартов «доступной среды» происходит централизовано, без обращения к опыту самих людей с инвалидностью, что в итоге приводит к рассеиванию ответственности за конечные результаты. Зачастую элементы доступной среды устанавливают только «для галочки» - ради соблюдения стандартных требований, делая их при этом совершенно непригодными для использования. Таким образом, установка пандусов для маломобильных групп населения, символизируя собой идею «доступности», становится товаром и используется власть имущие (бизнес и государство) лишь с целью формирования собственной положительной репутации. Подобные неудачные примеры реализации идеи «доступной среды» сосредоточивают наше внимание на «неписаных» моральных правилах, которые регулируют деятельность лиц, ответственных за создание «хороший дизайн» городской среды, при этом всегда тесно переплетаются с существующими в конкретном обществе приоритетами развития. [инвалидность, дизайн, инфраструктура, доступность, пандус, постсоциализм, Россия

Business · Water Governance and Infrastructure

  • Praying for Rights

    M Friedner•Anthropological Quarterly•2019

  • Elephants and DJs

    Open Access•José Alaniz•Wielogłos•2026

  • Performing inclusion

    Zizhen Wang, Xingjian Wang•Disability & Society•2026

  • Disablity

    Open Access•Clara Devlieger, Andrew Sanchez et al.•Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology•2018

  • Resistance to accessibility improvements in publicly accessible buildings

    Ilaria Faranda, Hanna Egard et al.•Disability & Society•2025

  • Ambivalent subjectivities

    Alfiya Battalova•Disability & Society•2019

  • Re-Proportioning, Re-Framing, Re-Purposing

    Philippa Mullins•Europe Asia Studies•2024

  • Emerging cycling policy in Moscow, Russia

    Open Access•Asya Bidordinova•Journal of Transport Geography•2021

  • How the disabled body unites the national body

    M Friedner•Contemporary South Asia•2017

  • Accessibility as a ‘doing’

    Open Access•Daniel Muñoz•Landscape Research•2023

  • Introducing a novel approach to the cross‐cultural measurement of stigma versus social integration using methods from the field of cognitive anthropology

    Open Access•Mirjam Holleman•Journal for the Theory of Social…•2020

  • Russia’s Domestication of Disability Inclusion

    Svetlana Borodina•Problems of Post-Communism•2023

  • Disability studies and development geography

    Open Access•Catherine Jampel, Anthony J Bebbington•Geography Compass•2018

  • Journeys, Mobility and Flows

    Open Access•Maja Sisnowski•Medical Anthropology•2021

  • After Marginalization

    Cassandra Hartblay•South Atlantic Quarterly•2019

  • Appearances of Disability and Christianity in Uganda

    Open Access•Tyler Zoanni•Cultural Anthropology•2019

  • Intercorporeal Togetherness

    Open Access•Svetlana Borodina•Cultural Anthropology•2022

  • This is not thick description

    Open Access•Cassandra Hartblay•Ethnography•2018

  • Technologies of care and the engineering imaginary

    Open Access•Vaia Y Sigounas•Medical Anthropology Quarterly•2024

  • Falshfasad

    Open Access•Michał Murawski•American Ethnologist•2022

  • Keywords and key words in AE

    Open Access•Yatun Sastramidjaja•American Ethnologist•2019

  • Vessel of God/Access to God

    Open Access•M Friedner, Michele Ilana Friedner•American Anthropologist•2018

  • Time and Relational Possibility

    Open Access•Noah Tamarkin•American Anthropologist•2018

  • Perpetuating ableism in engineering education

    Open Access•J Hardin, Anna Carter et al.•Anthropology & Education Quarterly•2025

  • You get sick when you go to the hospital!' Sickening landscapes, digital exclusiveness, and iatrogenesis in rural North China

    Open Access•Ray Qu•Journal of the Royal Anthropologica…•2024

  • Disability Expertise

    Cassandra Hartblay•Current Anthropology•2020

  • Accessing Value in Lahore's Waste Infrastructures

    Waqas H Butt•Ethnos•2023

  • Russia's economy of favours

    Alena V Ledeneva•Russia's economy of favours•1998

  • Working Skin

    Joseph D Hankins•Working Skin•2014

  • Women's Social Activism in the New Ukraine

    Sarah D Phillips, Sarah Phillips•Women's Social Activism in the…•2008

  • Disability in Local and Global Worlds

    Ingstad/Reynolds Whyte, Benedicte Ingstad et al.•Disability in Local and Global…•2007

  • Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia

    Open Access•Valerie Sperling•Organizing Women in Contemporary…•1999

  • Designing Collective Access

    Open Access•Aimi Hamraie•Disability Studies Quarterly•2013

  • Russian talk

    Nancy Ries•Russian talk•1997

  • Privatizing Poland

    E C Dunn•Privatizing Poland•2019

  • Queer in Russia

    Laurie Essig•Queer in Russia•1999

  • Bodies of DifferenceExperiences of Disability and Institutional Advocacy in the Making of Modern China

    Matthew Kohrman•Bodies of difference•2005

  • Politics in Color and Concrete

    Krisztina Fehérváry•Politics in color and concrete•2013

  • Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine

    D Phillips, Sarah D Phillips et al.•Disability and mobile citizenship…•2010

  • Sorting Things Out

    G C Bowker, Susan Leigh Star•Sorting Things Out•1999

  • Post-Soviet Social

    Open Access•Stephen J Collier•Post-Soviet social•2011

  • Friction

    Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing•Friction•2005

  • Red Tape

    Akhil Gupta•Red Tape•2020

  • Deaf in Japan

    Steven C Fedorowicz•Social Science Japan Journal•2007

  • Heaven for disabled people’

    Eunjung Kim•Disability & Society•2011

  • Audit Bodies

    Open Access•M Friedner, Jaquelyn Osborne et al.•Antipode•2013

  • Narratives of corruption

    Open Access•Akhil Gupta•Ethnography•2005

  • The question of access

    Tanya Titchkosky•The question of access•2011

  • Good Passages, Bad Passages

    Open Access•Ingunn Moser, John Law•The Sociological Review•1999

  • Accessibility as a discourse of space in Canadian housing cooperatives

    Open Access•Margaret Rodman, Margaret Critchlow Rodman et al.•American Ethnologist•1995

  • Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia

    Open Access•D Phillips, Sarah Phillips•American Anthropologist•2007

  • Bioexpectations

    P Redfield•Public Culture•2012

  • Design and Anthropology

    K M Murphy•Annual Review of Anthropology•2016

  • The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure

    Brian Larkin•Annual Review of Anthropology•2013

  • Disability Worlds

    Faye Ginsburg, Rayna Rapp•Annual Review of Anthropology•2013

  • Ideology in Infrastructure

    Open Access•Caroline Humphrey•Journal of the Royal Anthropologica…•2005

  • New Disability Mobilities and Accessibilities in Urban India

    Open Access•M Friedner, Jamie Osborne•City & Society•2015

  • Contesting Urban Space and Disability in HighlandEcuador

    Open Access•Nicholas A Rattray•City & Society•2013

  • When infrastructures attack

    Open Access•Julie Y Chu•American Ethnologist•2014

  • Civil society and healing

    D Phillips, Sarah D Phillips•Ethnos•2005

  • Thinking between the Posts

    Open Access•Sharad Chari, Katherine Verdery•Comparative Studies in Society…•2009

Unique citing works27
Citations per year3
Citation span2017 - 2026 (10)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 26

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub
Ethnos_APP • Open Source Project • MIT License • Frontend v2.0.0 • Privacy and Cookies • API Documentation: api.ethnos.app/docs • API Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17049435 • Frontend Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17050053 • cruz.rio.br • Expectantes Misericordiae