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Disability and Discourses of Mobility and Movement

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ID4142199
AuthorsRob Imrie (0000-0001-9866-6895, Royal Holloway University of London, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume32
Issue9
Pages1641-1656
Publication date2000-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a331
OpenAlexW2126170621
LanguageEN
Citations received93
References cited22

In this paper I seek to make a contribution to 'geographies of mobility' by arguing that assumptions of unrestricted movement and mobility in contemporary Western societies are hegemonic in prioritising specific bodies and modes of mobility and movement. In particular, mobility and movement are defined through 'normalising' discourses which serve to alienate impaired bodies and to prioritise what one might term the 'mobile body'. This has the effect of (re)producing structured inequalities in peoples' movement and mobility patterns. Such ideas are developed and illustrated with reference to interviews with disabled people

Aesthetics · Disabled people · Hegemony · Inequality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Disability Rights and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Exile Studies · Migration, Identity, and Health

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