Disabled Dimensionalities: Normative expectations' impacts on disabled perceptions and spatialities
As humans, we are expected to interact as fully functional 3D manipulators who can observe, handle, and act in three spatial dimensions. This is how users are considered in the design of many products and spaces. Ableism often gives people the perception that disabled people are inferior at manipula...
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Université de Reims Champagne-Ardennes
2022-11-01
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| author | Enka Blanchard Ashley Shew |
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| description | As humans, we are expected to interact as fully functional 3D manipulators who can observe, handle, and act in three spatial dimensions. This is how users are considered in the design of many products and spaces. Ableism often gives people the perception that disabled people are inferior at manipulating, imagining, and navigating the world. We contest this perception using both our own experiences as disabled manipulators and narratives from other disabled people that speak to this presumption as limited imagination and consideration. In this theoretical contribution, we analyze the consequences of ableism in how spaces — digital, physical, imaginary in science fiction, present in practice and material configuration — operate in the way we think about the material and virtual world. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-debb9170955d44a7834840b5c9213b602022-12-22T02:49:08ZengUniversité de Reims Champagne-ArdennesL'Espace Politique1958-55002022-11-014510.4000/espacepolitique.10518Disabled Dimensionalities: Normative expectations' impacts on disabled perceptions and spatialitiesEnka BlanchardAshley ShewAs humans, we are expected to interact as fully functional 3D manipulators who can observe, handle, and act in three spatial dimensions. This is how users are considered in the design of many products and spaces. Ableism often gives people the perception that disabled people are inferior at manipulating, imagining, and navigating the world. We contest this perception using both our own experiences as disabled manipulators and narratives from other disabled people that speak to this presumption as limited imagination and consideration. In this theoretical contribution, we analyze the consequences of ableism in how spaces — digital, physical, imaginary in science fiction, present in practice and material configuration — operate in the way we think about the material and virtual world.http://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/10518disability studiescrip spacespatialitiescripistemology |
| spellingShingle | Enka Blanchard Ashley Shew Disabled Dimensionalities: Normative expectations' impacts on disabled perceptions and spatialities L'Espace Politique disability studies crip space spatialities cripistemology |
| title | Disabled Dimensionalities: Normative expectations' impacts on disabled perceptions and spatialities |
| title_full | Disabled Dimensionalities: Normative expectations' impacts on disabled perceptions and spatialities |
| title_fullStr | Disabled Dimensionalities: Normative expectations' impacts on disabled perceptions and spatialities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Disabled Dimensionalities: Normative expectations' impacts on disabled perceptions and spatialities |
| title_short | Disabled Dimensionalities: Normative expectations' impacts on disabled perceptions and spatialities |
| title_sort | disabled dimensionalities normative expectations impacts on disabled perceptions and spatialities |
| topic | disability studies crip space spatialities cripistemology |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/espacepolitique/10518 |
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