Overview

Over the past 15 years, geography has made many significant contributions to our understanding of disabled people's identities, lives, and place in society and space.

About the Book

Towards Enabling Geographies brings together leading scholars to showcase the second wave of geographical studies concerned with disability and embodied differences.

Scope and Challenges

This area has broadened and challenged conventional boundaries of disability, expanding the kinds of embodied differences considered, while continuing to grapple with important challenges such as policy relevance and the use of more inclusionary research approaches.

Significance

This book demonstrates the value of a spatial conceptualization of disability and disablement to a broader social science audience, whilst examining how this conceptualization can be further developed and refined.