Dis/Abling Spaces of Calculation

Blindness and Money in Everyday Life

Bibliographic Data

ID4862443
AuthorsMichael Schillmeier (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume25
Issue4
Pages594-609
Publication date2007-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d4173
OpenAlexW2080872139
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited30

In this paper I attempt to explore how 'ordinary acts' of dealing with money and with money technologies fabricate enabling and disabling-dis/abling-spaces of calculation. Rather than referring to money merely as a general symbolic medium of exchange, I highlight the materiality and the sensory practices involved in handling money and shaping the practice of sociality. Drawing on empirical material, I explicate some of the ways in which everyday practices with money are distinctively important for visually disabled people. Combining sociological and social philosophical thoughts with insights from science and technology studies, I rethink the social understanding of money and disability. I explore how (visual) dis/ability is situated in everyday practices and suggest that it can be understood neither as an individual bodily impairment nor as a socially attributed disability. Both money and blindness become visible as complex sets of calculate practices, linking bodies, material objects, and technologies with sensory practices. These practices, I conclude, draw attention to the heterogeneous fabrication of sociality and to the emerging dis/abling spaces of calculation that unfold in the course of everyday life

Aesthetics · Art · Blindness · Epistemology · Ethnography · Ethnomethodology · Everyday life · Materiality (auditing · Situated · Social life · Social science · Sociality · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychology · Social Psychology

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