Seeing People Differently
The Sociospatial Construction of Disability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4476828 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Dear (University of Southern California, corresponding author), Robert Wilton (0000-0001-9222-1916, University of Southern California, corresponding author), Sharon Lord Gaber (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), Sharon Gaber (University of Nebraska–Lincoln, corresponding author), L Takahashi (0000-0001-5974-3456, University of California, Irvine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 455-480 |
| Publication date | 1997-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d150455 |
| OpenAlex | W1993171241 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 57 |
| References cited | 45 |
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 consequence among the population at large is a 'hierarchy of acceptance', that is, a structure of preferential ranking among various disability categories. A metaanalysis of 44 acceptance hierarchy studies since 1968 reveals both stability and change in community preference structures. The largest impetus for change derives from the appearance of new 'disabilities' including most especially people with AIDS, and homeless people. Evidence also suggests that significant attitudinal variations occur through space as well as time and when different facility types are considered and that actual behavior may differ from expressed attitudinal preferences. This paper concludes with remarks directed toward a more adequate sociospatial theory of disability
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Disability, Geography of
The Space and Power of Young People's Social Relationships
The Sexual Lives of Men and Women with Disabilities
Protests and Media Representations
The Right to (Re)Shape the City
HIV/Aids and ‘othering’ in South Africa
Presenting a New Framework to Improve Engagement in Physical Activity Programs for Children and Adolescents With Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Disabilities
Structural Determinants of Black MSM HIV Testing Coverage (2011–2016)
Disability and food access and insecurity
From distributions of deviance to definitions of difference
Drugscapes and the role of place and space in injection drug use-related HIV risk environments
Overcoming Public Opposition to Transitional Housing
Public Support for Emergency Shelter Housing Interventions Concerning Stigmatized Populations
Children with mind–body differences
People don't do odd, do they?’ mothers making sense of the reactions of others towards their learning disabled children in public places
(Dis)abling children in primary school micro-spaces
An embodied geography of disablement
Placing the dynamics of syringe exchange programs in the United States
Stigmatization, HIV/Aids, and communities of color
Visualizing homelessness
Incongruous encounters
Shopmobility at the millennium
Disclosing food allergy status in schools
Living with dementia in rural and remote Scotland
Information and Attitudes Toward Mental Health Care Facilities
Correctional Facility Establishments and Neighborhood Housing Characteristics
Disability studies in human geography
Political ecologies of health
Grounding Hierarchies of Acceptance
When Does “Race” Matter? Exploring Variation in Attitudes Toward Controversial Facilities
Playing the blame game
From Madonna to Marx
Disability and the Open City
The Imagination and Representation of Space in Everyday Experience
Social geographies of rural mental health
Nimby localism and national inequitable exclusion alliances
Narrating intersections of gender and dwarfism in everyday spaces
It feels like being Deaf is normal’
Enhancing spatial learning and mobility training of visually impaired people—a technical paper on the Internet‐based tactile and audio‐tactile mapping
Road‐kill on the information highway
Micro‐bodily mobilities
From personal tragedy to personal challenge
Locating physical disability in Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis
Rethinking responses towards group-homes
Política internacional, nacional y local
Dancingustohersong
How are they othered? Globalisation, identity and violence in an Indian city
Social spaces of little people
Understanding, embracing, rejecting
In motion, out of place
The socio-spatial stigmatization of homelessness and HIV/Aids
Putting policy into practice? Poverty and people with serious mental illness
Children's Sociospatial (re)Production of Disability within Primary School Playgrounds
Delusional Geographies
Claiming disability in the field of geography
Disability as Status Competition
When You're (not) the Stereotype
Landscapes of Despair
Powers of Horror
Understanding and Overcoming the Nimby Syndrome
Postmodern geographies
Geographies of Exclusion
Feminism/Postmodernism
Justice and the Politics of Difference
Essentially Speaking
The Politics of Disablement
The Hierarchy of Preference Toward Disability Groups
Cultural Attitudes Toward Disability
Disabling Laws, Enabling Acts
Location and Stigma
Aids in historical perspective
On Being Not Even Anywhere Near ‘The Project’
The Politics of Physical Differences
Impairment as a Human Constant
An epidemic of stigma
Variant Reactions to Physical Disabilities
A Place for Experience
Knowledge and attitudes about Aids of residents of greater Athens
Community attitudes to mental illness in New Zealand twenty-two years on
Social distance from the stigmatized
Attitudes towards disabilities in a multicultural society
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
Bringing Our Bodies and Ourselves Back In
Neighborhood Types and Community Reaction to the Mentally Ill
Evaluation of Persons with a Physical Disability
| Unique citing works | 57 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,97 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2026 (30) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 57 |