The question of access : disability, space, meaning / Tanya Titchkosky.

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Titchkosky, Tanya, 1966- author

Title & Author:

The question of access : disability, space, meaning / Tanya Titchkosky.

Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2011.

Description:

xvi, 177 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-167) and index.
Introduction : access as an act of perception -- 'Who?' : disability identity and the question of belonging -- 'What? : representing disability -- 'Where?' : to pee or not to pee -- 'When? Not yet' : the absent presence of disability in contemporary university life -- Towards a politics of wonder in disability studies.

Summary:

"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."--Pub. desc.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9781442640269 (bound)
144264026X (bound)
9781442685222 (pbk.)
1442685220 (pbk.)
144261000X
9781442610002 (pbk.)

Subject:

People with disabilities Education (Higher) Ontario Toronto.
People with disabilities Ontario Toronto Social conditions.
College students with disabilities Ontario Toronto Social conditions.
Social integration Ontario Toronto.
Sociology of disability.
Personnes handicapées Enseignement supérieur Ontario Toronto.
Personnes handicapées Ontario Toronto Conditions sociales.
Étudiants handicapés Ontario Toronto Conditions sociales.
Intégration sociale Ontario Toronto.
Handicap Aspect sociologique.
People with disabilities Education (Higher)
People with disabilities Social conditions
Social integration
Studenter med funktionsnedsättning.
Högskoleutbildning.
Ontario Toronto
Kanada Toronto.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 275036
Call No.: LC4814.C32 T6 2011
Notes: cloth
Status: Available

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