Incongruous encounters: the problem of accessing accessible spaces for people with dwarfism

Pritchard, Erin

doi:10.1080/09687599.2020.1755236

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“…As such, face coverings may continue to be part of public life for some time. We can note, too, that while face coverings may continue to be optional, signaling hidden disabilities in public space will continue to be an ongoing concern for some individuals; masks are merely part of a longer trajectory about disability access, rights, and legitimacy in public space (Pritchard, 2020).…”

Section: Discussion: New Everyday Encounters Unmasking Old Exclusions?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, people with invisible impairments may feel fraudulent when negotiating access (White, 2023), due to the difficulties associated with receiving recognition and thus support. Pritchard (2020) explores how, in being denied or challenged access to public space, therein lies a hierarchy of impairment. Such “incongruous encounters,” for Pritchard, are told through challenges in access to toilets and parking spaces, where access is regulated and policed by others.…”

Section: Sociology Of the Everyday: In/visibility Materiality And The...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Unmasked: COVID-19, Face Coverings, and Navigating Dis/Abling Spaces and Cultures

Thomas

White

2023

Space and Culture

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, policies have been established that have exempted some disabled people from wearing a face covering in public spaces. Yet, despite the introduction of such policies, disabled people have reported being challenged and abused for not wearing one. Drawing upon key ideas and tropes from disability studies and the sociology of the everyday, we sketch out the adverse effects and ambiguities caused by the pandemic relating to the use of face coverings, along with how emerging cultural norms and notions of shame are publicly mobilized to police conduct. Touching on themes of access, materiality, in/visibility, and in/exclusion, we conclude that face coverings are simply another artifact through which disabled people are read, judged, and excluded in public life. We also contend that face coverings, and the controversy surrounding their use, are another example of how disabled people have been overlooked, disregarded, and disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Section: Discussion: New Everyday Encounters Unmasking Old Exclusions?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Sociology Of the Everyday: In/visibility Materiality And The...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Unmasked: COVID-19, Face Coverings, and Navigating Dis/Abling Spaces and Cultures

Thomas

White

2023

Space and Culture

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“…While persons with mobility or visual impairments are those being described, the needs of persons with difficulties to orientate are not present. How constructions of such hierarchies can limit the society's understanding of certain needs and how access to accessible spaces is influenced by such hierarchies has been described in previous research (Pritchard 2020). Limited understanding of human diversity and certain needs could accumulate the exclusion of certain users (e.g., accessibility connected to orientation and cognition run a high risk of being neglected in the building process).…”

Section: The Disabling Image Of the Usermentioning

confidence: 96%

Young, Mobile, and Highly Educated Cyclists: How Urban Planning and Policy Dis/able Users

Müller

Ericsson

Wojahn

et al. 2021

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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The focus of this study is how intended users of the built environment are categorized in strategies, policies, and guidelines for the planning and building process. The image of the intended user reflects a disabling society that also is in conflict with established policies on a society for all. Patterns of inequality are found in the materials, both within and across groups of users. With youth, health, and mobility in the foreground, older persons and persons with disabilities are almost never evident. Disability is made visible only through its mirror: the ability norm.In the review of planning documents from a medium-sized Swedish municipality, the study sought to identify if and how users are described and to analyse which users are included in or excluded from the urban environment during planning stages. The article argues that new ways of thinking, to include a diversity perspective in planning, are needed.

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“…As conservative outlier criteria for height and penis size, we excluded all men who either reported being shorter than the threshold of 147 cm for dwarfism (n = 2; cf. Pritchard, 2021) or who claimed to be taller than the Guinness World Record of 272 cm (n = 1; Silk, 2006) and men who reported that their erect or flaccid penis size was either 0 cm (n = 1) or larger than the claimed world record of 34 cm (Kimmel et al, 2014;Kim, 2016;Zane, 2021) in the erect (n = 12) or flaccid (n = 14) state. In the most extreme case, the self-reported erect penis size (9,000 cm) was 50 times larger than the penis size of an adult elephant, which has the largest penis of any land animal (Giustina, 2005).…”

Section: Outliers and Attrition Checkmentioning

confidence: 96%

Smaller prize, bigger size? Exploring the impact of money on men’s self-reported markers of masculinity

2023

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Bodily markers, often self-reported, are frequently used in research to predict a variety of outcomes. The present study examined whether men, at the aggregate level, would overestimate certain bodily markers linked to masculinity, and if so, to what extent. Furthermore, the study explored whether the amount of monetary rewards distributed to male participants would influence the obtained data quality. Men from two participant pools were asked to self-report a series of bodily measures. All self-report measures except weight were consistently found to be above the population mean (height and penis size) or the scale midpoint (athleticism). Additionally, the participant pool that received the lower (vs. higher) monetary reward showed a particularly powerful deviation from the population mean in penis size and were significantly more likely to report their erect and flaccid penis size to be larger than the claimed but not verified world record of 34 cm. These findings indicate that studies relying on men’s self-reported measures of certain body parts should be interpreted with great caution, but that higher monetary rewards seem to improve data quality slightly for such measures.

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Incongruous encounters: the problem of accessing accessible spaces for people with dwarfism

Cited by 12 publications

References 37 publications

Unmasked: COVID-19, Face Coverings, and Navigating Dis/Abling Spaces and Cultures

Unmasked: COVID-19, Face Coverings, and Navigating Dis/Abling Spaces and Cultures

Young, Mobile, and Highly Educated Cyclists: How Urban Planning and Policy Dis/able Users

Smaller prize, bigger size? Exploring the impact of money on men’s self-reported markers of masculinity

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