‘Feeling what I write’: researching disability and leisure with experience of living with a disability

Condie, Graham A.

doi:10.1080/02614367.2023.2191980

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“…Furthermore, there is a paucity of disabled scholars or researchers performing studies, even within disability studies (De Picker, 2020). If disabled voice is present, the focus remains on the voice of the participants and non-disabled researchers are interpreting the experiences (Condie, 2023;Stone & Priestly, 1996;Tregaskis & Goodley, 2004). There are few studies that claim to have been conducted by disabled scholars, e.g.…”

Section: In Theories Of Disabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are few studies that claim to have been conducted by disabled scholars, e.g. De Picker, 2020, Condie, 2023). This is not an ethical issue, but a lack of disabled voice raises questions on how well disabled experiences can be centred and represented by non-disabled researchers (Peuzzo, 2020).…”

Section: In Theories Of Disabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Additionally, CDT research is further criticised due to the paucity of disabled scholars (De Picker, 2020). Often when discussing disabled voice, the focus is the voice of the participants with nondisabled researchers interpreting (Condie, 2023;Stone & Priestly, 1996;Tregaskis & Goodley, 2004). Whilst this might not be an ethical issue, it raises questions of what disabled voice could mean, how well the disabled experience can be interpreted and represented by non-disabled researchers applying CDT (Peruzzo, 2020;Tregaskis & Goodley, 2005).…”

Section: Critical Disability Theory (Cdt)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Whilst this might not be an ethical issue, it raises questions of what disabled voice could mean, how well the disabled experience can be interpreted and represented by non-disabled researchers applying CDT (Peruzzo, 2020;Tregaskis & Goodley, 2005). Recommendations for negating possible problems of over-interpretation of voice is to situate research within the social model of disability, this requires a commitment to a multifaceted understanding of disability and co-creation of data (Condie, 2023;Stone & Priestly, 1996). One of the dimensions of disability is the physicality of disability and how the body affects and is affected by disability.…”

Section: Critical Disability Theory (Cdt)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A further critique of CDT that my thesis addresses is a lack of disabled voice from the side of the researcher. There are few studies that claim to be carried out by disabled scholars (Condie, 2023;De Picker, 2020). This raises questions of what disabled voice could mean within CDT and how to negate possible problems of over-interpretation of voice (Peruzzo, 2020).…”

Section: Disabled Scholar Paucitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Phenomenological Exploration of How People with Limited Mobilities Experience Adventure Tourism in Virtual Reality

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The aim of this study is to better understand how people with limited mobilities experience adventure tourism using virtual reality (VR). Taking a phenomenological position, my research uses a methodology based in Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to explore the nuances and complexities of disabled experiences using a VR headset. Disabled experiences and disabled voice are consistently limited in tourism research, even when VR is theorised as an assistive tool to access tourism experiences. There are few in-depth studies from a disabled perspective. In response to this, I sought to apply a qualitative phenomenological approach to understand the lived experience of disabled people using VR to access adventure tourism. I use IPA as a guiding framework explore the lived experiences and perspectives of seven women and five men with limited mobilities across South Wales. My contributions to research tourism are threefold. Firstly, my findings demonstrate that participants wished to use VR as a tool for escapism. The wish to escape was influenced by participants’ disabilities and bodies and use of the VR to escape was dictated by the body’s relationship with the technology; thus, VR was deemed inaccessible by participants. Secondly, as a methodological contribution, I demonstrate the value of using IPA for accessing complex and nuanced lived experiences. Furthermore, I question how VR can be beneficial to disabled people, or how it is used in research and practice if it has been considered inaccessible. Thirdly, whilst drawing on relevant literature, I decentre the able body and challenge able-bodied assumptions in tourism research. I centralise disabled voices and the disabled bodies as a point of understanding and a way of perceiving through the body. In doing so, I contribute to an emerging literature addressing the marginalisation of disabled voices from research.

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Section: In Theories Of Disabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: In Theories Of Disabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%