The entangled geographies of social exclusion/inclusion for people with learning disabilities

Hall, Edward

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2004.10.007

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“…Social engagement before and after the interview with the group also helped assess people's level of comfort with the material we discussed. This is similar to the experience described by Hall (2005) in his group research with people with intellectual disability. This view can only be generalized from this study with considerable caution, due to the small number of individual interviews conducted (four), although it is consistent with previous research (Robinson 2010).…”

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Safe at home? Factors influencing the safety strategies used by people with intellectual disability

Robinson

2013

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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Little is known about how people with intellectual disability understand personal safety, or what strategies they call upon when they do not feel safe in their homes. In this participatory research, 20 people with intellectual disability talked about the ways they keep themselves safe in the places where they live, and what helps them or makes it hard for them to stay safe. Interviews with nine disability policymakers were also conducted to include a systemic perspective about how personal safety is addressed by funded disability support services. A series of factors either support people or make it difficult for them to put their strategies into action, influencing the degree to which they were able to draw upon their own strategies to protect themselves from potential harm.Keywords: intellectual disability; personal safety; harm; abuse prevention; user views IntroductionWhile there is a limited body of research with people with intellectual disability about their experience of abuse and neglect, there is little research which asks people about how they take preventative action to avoid harm. Research with people with intellectual disability which works directly with them to look for the causes and consequences of abuse and harm has important implications for policy and practice in not only disability services, but more broadly for community safety strategies, public housing design and crime prevention.In this participatory study, 20 people with intellectual disability were asked about how they understand personal safety, and about what they do when they do not feel safe at home. People who lived in a range of environments Á in group homes, in boarding houses, in social [public] housing units and villas, with family, and in homes they own Á shared their experiences and perspectives about how they keep safe, and what works and does not work well for them. Policy-makers and practitioners also contributed a systemic perspective to the study about how the disability support system promotes the personal safety of people with intellectual disability in the Australian state in which the research took place. This paper discusses the results of the study. The background to the study is briefly described, followed by a literature review which situates personal safety and self-protection strategies within the abuse and neglect research literature. The results *Email: sally.robinson@scu.edu.au Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2014 Vol. 16, No. 2, 99Á113, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15017419.2013 # 2013 Nordic Network on Disability Research of the study are presented, with priority given to the experiences and perspectives of people with intellectual disability. A series of implications arising from the results are discussed which have relevance for theory, policy and practice. BackgroundIn previous research completed with people with intellectual disability about emotional and psychological abuse and neglect (Robinson 2010), some participants raised strategies they draw upon to keep themselves safe when they fee...

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Safe at home? Factors influencing the safety strategies used by people with intellectual disability

Robinson

2013

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research

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“…Furthermore, it supports Hall's (2005) conceptualisation of social inclusion and exclusion as not absolute positions, but rather as relational and entangled in particular ways and in particular contexts. I explore the social relations between young street dwellers and middle class residents, businesses, and police in one specific neighbourhood in urban Brazil with the aim to: (1) examine the hegemonic exclusionary discourses that 'other' poor people in general and boys and young men on the street in particular; (2) map out exclusionary mechanisms that guard the socio-spatial boundaries of an elite neighbourhood; and (3) explore less known but equally important inclusionary mechanisms, facilitating street life and enabling a sense of belonging among the young homeless.…”

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Contradictory and Intersecting Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion of Street Youth in Salvador, Brazil

Ursin

2016

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Drawing on longitudinal qualitative research in Brazil involving participant observation and narrative interviews with young homeless persons, and semi-structured interviews with middle class residents, local businesses, and patrolling police officers, three overlapping yet contradictory dimensions of inclusion and exclusion are developed. First the hegemonic exclusionary discourse that tends to produce stigmatizing labels on poor people in general, and boys and young men on the street in particular, is mapped out. Second, socio-spatial exclusionary mechanisms involving architectural measures, surveillance cameras and violent policing, guarding the neighbourhood from stigmatised 'others' are examined. Third, the less recognised but equally important inclusionary mechanisms, facilitating street life and enabling a sense of belonging among young homeless people are explored. A simplistic and unidimensional conceptualisation of social exclusion is critiqued while demonstrating the multifaceted, intertwined, and contradictory character of homeless people's social relationships with middle class residents, businesses, and police. Furthermore, the exclusion/inclusion dualism that is vivid in the existing literature is questioned. It is suggested that a nuanced picture is vital to increasing our understanding of the everyday lives of homeless populations and that further investigation and theorization of their exclusion as well as inclusion is needed.

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“…This is a welcome conceptual development as it has been noted for some time that many disabled people find experiences of inclusion and belonging within supposedly marginal environments (such as sheltered employment) yet struggle with marginalization in sites thought to be inclusive and integrative (such as mainstream workplaces) (Hall, 2005). Explicit attention to the emergent properties of space and place helps to foreground the complex relational configurations that shape and reshape the character of specific settings.…”

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Towards a relational geography of disability

Hall

Wilton

2016

Progress in Human Geography

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In this paper we develop linkages between non-representational theory and emerging work by disability scholars in geography. We argue that non-representational thinking has the potential to advance our understanding of the complex and emergent geographies of dis/ability. We first outline key dimensions of non-representational thinking within geography. We then explore how this perspective has begun to, and might further inform, geographical scholarship on disability. Next, we extend our thinking to consider how NRT might provide the basis for a critical geography of the ‘able-body’. We conclude by reflecting on the conceptual, political, methodological and empirical implications of our argument.

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The entangled geographies of social exclusion/inclusion for people with learning disabilities

Cited by 134 publications

References 14 publications

Safe at home? Factors influencing the safety strategies used by people with intellectual disability

Safe at home? Factors influencing the safety strategies used by people with intellectual disability

Contradictory and Intersecting Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion of Street Youth in Salvador, Brazil

Towards a relational geography of disability

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