Disability, Geography of

In recent years, the sociospatial causes and consequences of disability (i.e., of being socially constructed as negatively different on the basis of mental or physical bodily impairment), has become a significant focus of critical geographic inquiry. These studies treat disability not as a given consequence of bodily impairment, but as a sociospatial process of marking impaired bodies as negatively ‘other’ and, on the basis of this negative …