Space and CulturePub Date : 2023-07-14DOI: 10.1177/12063312231181524
Laura Sanmiquel-Molinero
{"title":"The Rehabilitation Hospital as a “Parenthetical Bubble-Shell”: Adjusting to Disability Within the Covid-19 Crisis","authors":"Laura Sanmiquel-Molinero","doi":"10.1177/12063312231181524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/12063312231181524","url":null,"abstract":"This essay contrasts the experiences of hospitalization and transition from hospital to home of people who have recently acquired a spinal cord injury (SCI) and the health professionals who work with them before and during pandemic-related restrictions. These experiences are analyzed through the theoretical frameworks of liminality and intersectional Critical Disability Studies. Drawing on narrative-ethnographic data collected in Spain, I illustrate that the rehabilitation hospital is conceived as a “parenthetical bubble-shell” the boundedness and permeability of which was radically altered during lockdown. First, I discuss how this transformed the way people with an SCI adjust to new ways of approaching space and time in hospital settings. Second, I explore how lockdown impacted key processes of “discharge preparation.” Third, I argue that the intersection between ability, gender, and social class modulates the extent to which exiting the hospital before and during the pandemic represented an ongoing crisis.","PeriodicalId":46749,"journal":{"name":"Space and Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41917741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Space and CulturePub Date : 2023-07-14DOI: 10.1177/12063312231181535
M. Schillmeier
{"title":"Interstices of Dis/abling Experiences in Times of Crises","authors":"M. Schillmeier","doi":"10.1177/12063312231181535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/12063312231181535","url":null,"abstract":"It is the very lived experiences of crises that draw attention to the situated relations of dis/embodied, spatial, and cultural practices that constitute dis/abling experiences that this Special Issue wishes to address and critically engage with. How are crises lived and experienced by disabled people and how can we learn from the experiences of disabled people in dealing with spatio-culturally situated differences and related specific constraints and requirements in situations of crises? How may these experiences allude to the diversity of embodied life? Understood as precarious interstices, crises experiences not only tell us much about how we live and think by troubling of how we think and live, but they also make us think, hesitate, imagine, and tinker of how we do and may wish to live differently. By unfolding these interstitial experiences, this Special Issue wishes to contribute to the emergence of “publics” (Dewey) which draw attention to the diversity of dis/abling experiences and related modes of existence.","PeriodicalId":46749,"journal":{"name":"Space and Culture","volume":"26 1","pages":"284 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42371571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Space and CulturePub Date : 2023-07-14DOI: 10.1177/12063312231181519
Clare Harvey
{"title":"Short and Locked Down: The Impact of COVID-19 on a Person With Dwarfism","authors":"Clare Harvey","doi":"10.1177/12063312231181519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/12063312231181519","url":null,"abstract":"Living with a visible physical disability—specifically dwarfism—brings situational, psychosocial, and cultural challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic, and its restrictions, amplifies these dwarfism-related complexities, exposing the politics of visibility and exclusion, as well as spatial injustices. This autoethnographic paper deliberates these heightened disabling encounters in their various contextual layers—physical, social, and psychological. Fundamentally, people with dwarfism have become further disabled and disadvantaged because of the pandemic’s psychosocial stresses, contextual traumas, and physical exclusions. The paper intimately addresses the embodied, psychological, cultural, and spatial inequalities short-statured individuals endure because of the pandemic. Drawing on theoretical models of disability, critical disability literature, geographies of disability, as well as the conceptual paradigm of biopolitical power, the paper begins to make sense of these experiences so that shifts may occur in different spaces. Arguably, the experiences of COVID-19 that are shared here are also applicable to people with other disabilities.","PeriodicalId":46749,"journal":{"name":"Space and Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48707844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Space and CulturePub Date : 2023-07-14DOI: 10.1177/12063312231181534
K. Williamson, Cíntia Engel, H. Fietz
{"title":"The Chronicity of Home-Making: Women Caregivers in Dis/Abling Spaces","authors":"K. Williamson, Cíntia Engel, H. Fietz","doi":"10.1177/12063312231181534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/12063312231181534","url":null,"abstract":"Care for disabled family members in Brazil has historically been concentrated in the home, but the Covid-19 pandemic has intensified domestic care labor by limiting infrastructures of care. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with women caring for disabled others at different stages of life in three regions of Brazil, we advance two interconnected concepts that emerged in our interlocutors’ narratives. We contend that the Covid-19 pandemic has engendered a chronification of home-making, which intensified a long-standing pattern of unequally gendered labor in maintaining arrangements of spaces, people, and things. In the context of the progressive loss of social safety nets and deepening social inequality, this chronicified process of home-making also gives rise to dis/abling care—care that simultaneously enables others and disables caregivers. Our work demonstrates how the pandemic is re-entrenching historical inequalities in Brazil and how disability is produced in pandemic times.","PeriodicalId":46749,"journal":{"name":"Space and Culture","volume":"26 1","pages":"468 - 482"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43440624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Space and CulturePub Date : 2023-07-14DOI: 10.1177/12063312231181532
J. Bourke, T. Young, Catherine Grace, Josh Caldwell, R. Martin
{"title":"Dissolving Ableism: Could Disabled People Flourish During the First Aotearoa New Zealand COVID-19 Lockdown?","authors":"J. Bourke, T. Young, Catherine Grace, Josh Caldwell, R. Martin","doi":"10.1177/12063312231181532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/12063312231181532","url":null,"abstract":"Societal culture, space, and structure have been unprecedentedly disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic creating disproportionate vulnerability for disabled people. However, the upheaval of many societal conditions has presented enabling opportunities for disabled people. We report on interviews with 30 disabled people during the first four-week Aotearoa New Zealand COVID-19 lockdown. Three key themes were interpreted: “I am experiencing less disability on a daily basis,” encapsulating the experience of reduced disabling barriers for participants; “Working from home: the flexibility I have been asking for,” summarizing the benefits of functioning in an enabling home/work space; and “Social connection opportunities are the same for everyone,” overviewing participants reports that online opportunities presented a greater sense of belonging than before lockdown. Study findings highlight that despite a constant fear of the negative impact posed by COVID-19, there were numerous opportunities to reduce ablism through applying empowering factors inherent in novel cultural spaces.","PeriodicalId":46749,"journal":{"name":"Space and Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43581137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Space and CulturePub Date : 2023-07-14DOI: 10.1177/12063312231181521
G. Thomas, Lauren White
{"title":"Unmasked: COVID-19, Face Coverings, and Navigating Dis/Abling Spaces and Cultures","authors":"G. Thomas, Lauren White","doi":"10.1177/12063312231181521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/12063312231181521","url":null,"abstract":"During the COVID-19 pandemic, policies have been established that have exempted some disabled people from wearing a face covering in public spaces. Yet, despite the introduction of such policies, disabled people have reported being challenged and abused for not wearing one. Drawing upon key ideas and tropes from disability studies and the sociology of the everyday, we sketch out the adverse effects and ambiguities caused by the pandemic relating to the use of face coverings, along with how emerging cultural norms and notions of shame are publicly mobilized to police conduct. Touching on themes of access, materiality, in/visibility, and in/exclusion, we conclude that face coverings are simply another artifact through which disabled people are read, judged, and excluded in public life. We also contend that face coverings, and the controversy surrounding their use, are another example of how disabled people have been overlooked, disregarded, and disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":46749,"journal":{"name":"Space and Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47542369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Space and CulturePub Date : 2023-07-14DOI: 10.1177/12063312231161187
Joan Moyà-Köhler, Andrea García-Santesmases, Lluvi Farré
{"title":"Tensions and Escapes in Independent Living Infrastructures for People With Disabilities Under COVID-19","authors":"Joan Moyà-Köhler, Andrea García-Santesmases, Lluvi Farré","doi":"10.1177/12063312231161187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/12063312231161187","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the structural deficiencies of residential care homes. In this context, living arrangements based on the independent living paradigm emerged as more resilient care infrastructures in terms of preserving life. But what kind of lives have they preserved, and who has decided what forms those lives took? Drawing on an ethnographic study of two care infrastructures for people with physical and intellectual disabilities living independently in Barcelona, the present study illustrates how the pandemic tensioned and unleashed escapes within these two services, revealing them as postinstitutions working under logics of bureaucratization and hospitalization. This in-depth study allows us to delve deeper into the constraints that these postinstitutionalization models present, at the time that explores the possibilities these projects present for continuing to work toward the promotion of self-organization and full participation of people with disabilities in the becoming of their life projects.","PeriodicalId":46749,"journal":{"name":"Space and Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48194328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Space and CulturePub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1177/12063312231176158
{"title":"Corrigendum to Role and Meaning of Public Space: Findings From the Margins of Milan","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/12063312231176158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/12063312231176158","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46749,"journal":{"name":"Space and Culture","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135674560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Space and CulturePub Date : 2023-04-07DOI: 10.1177/12063312231161200
Sevcan Ercan
{"title":"Spaces of Displacement on the Island of Imbros/Gökçeada","authors":"Sevcan Ercan","doi":"10.1177/12063312231161200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/12063312231161200","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates spaces of displacement within the context of Imbros, employing it as a case study to provide a novel perspective on the global phenomenon of displacement. Imbros/Gökçeada is a Turkish island in the Aegean Archipelago, currently inhabited by Turkish citizens from the mainland plus an indigenous community known as Rums or Asia Minor Greeks—an ethnic group who have faced waves of systematic displacement from the island during the 20th century since the demise of the Ottoman Empire. While the displacement of Imbrian Rums intensified between the period 1963 and 1980, the island simultaneously began to accommodate a growing number of Turkish residents, most of whom were emplaced by the Turkish authorities into the state-built villages on Imbros. Since the late 1990s, however, a return movement of the displaced Rum community to Imbros has gradually emerged through the revitalization of several Rum rituals on the island. As a result of these multiple temporal and spatial layers of displacement witnessed on Imbros, the question of how to better understand the phenomenon of displacement arose. To that end, the concept of positionality is deployed as a lens through which to analyze the various phases and spaces of displacement as they have occurred on Imbros itself, and from this, I produce the observation that the spatial phenomenon of displacement on Imbros is actually an entanglement of displacement, emplacement, and return (re-emplacement).","PeriodicalId":46749,"journal":{"name":"Space and Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45009544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Space and CulturePub Date : 2023-03-28DOI: 10.1177/12063312231161199
Paolo Grassi, F. Cognetti
{"title":"Role and Meaning of Public Space: Findings From the Margins of Milan","authors":"Paolo Grassi, F. Cognetti","doi":"10.1177/12063312231161199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/12063312231161199","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the meanings of the public space, specifically addressing urban marginalized areas. It explores the issue of inequality in relation to public space and how this is reflected in urban policies. Starting from a theoretical framework based on three heuristic dimensions regarding practices, imaginaries, and norms, the authors will analyze through a multidisciplinary approach—that brings planning and cultural anthropology into dialogue—three cases related to some resignification and re-appropriation dynamics within a neighborhood of social housing located in Milan. The three cases concern: a regeneration project of a road accomplished through an experimental municipal device; a recently renewed square located on the border of the neighborhood; the organization of a public event to clean up waste. The public space of San Siro will emerge as an arena where several social actors and their conflicting interests clash, thus affecting the everyday life of its residents and the possibilities for planning an inclusive city as a whole.","PeriodicalId":46749,"journal":{"name":"Space and Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45478906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}