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The Question of Access: Disability, Space, Meaning

By Tanya Titchkosky

Book information

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9781442640269, 9781442610002
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
742 kB (760228 bytes)
Pages
194\194
Orientation
no
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2024-02-09 19:38:32

Description

Values such as 'access' and 'inclusion' are unquestioned in the contemporary educational landscape. But many methods of addressing these issues — installing signs, ramps, and accessible washrooms — frame disability only as a problem to be 'fixed.' The Question of Access investigates the social meanings of access in contemporary university life from the perspective of Cultural Disability Studies. Through narratives of struggle and analyses of policy and everyday practices, Tanya Titchkosky shows how interpretations of access reproduce conceptions of who belongs, where and when. Titchkosky examines how the bureaucratization of access issues has affected understandings of our lives together in social space. Representing 'access' as a beginning point for how disability can be rethought, rather than as a mere synonym for justice, The Question of Access allows readers to critically question their own implicit conceptions of disability, non-disability, and access.

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