This paper is concerned with the geographical analysis of care relationships. It argues that concern with space needs to be augmented by a more explicit attention to the importance of time to caring. The paper discusses the importance of time to social relationships of care, and reviews existing attempts to integrate time with space in geographical research. The paper reflects on and extends the 'caringscapes/carescapes' framework for research on informal care proposed in a recent book and earlier publications by myself and colleagues. It suggests that exploring the time-space links between the processes producing policies and services and those affecting individual behaviours is a promising avenue for future research. IntroductionThe past fifteen years have seen major growth in research on the geographies of care. This research has shown the importance of space and place to the social organisation and experience of care exchanges. In this paper I argue that this concern with space needs to be augmented by a more explicit attention to the importance of time to caring. The paper focuses on informal care and outlines and reflects on the 'caringscapes/carescape' framework for research on informal care proposed by myself and colleagues (Bowlby et al, 2010;McKie et al, 2002). I develop this work by examining the relationship between caringscapes and carescapes, and suggest that exploring the links between them is a promising avenue for future research.In the next section I briefly review the range of research on geographies of care. In the following section I argue for a more explicit focus on how time-space relationships are implicated in the marginalisation of some people involved in care exchanges. In the next section I introduce and discuss the 'caringscapes' fi-amework; and in the final section review and reflect on the argument in the paper.

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In this paper we consider the ways in which concepts of and attitudes towards ‘disability’ affect disabled people's ability to move freely within public spaces. We first set the paper in context by briefly discussing recent developments in and ongoing debates on the conceptualisation of disability which have accompanied the growing disability rights movement. Next we examine feminist literature relating to the links between biology and the body and the social status of women and draw out parallels for the analysis of disabled people's social situation. We then discuss a possible framework for the analysis of disabled people's experience of public space. Finally, to illustrate the reflexive relationship between bodily and social experience, we draw on in-depth interview material from a case study of visually impaired people in Reading and Leeds, England.

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