'Disablement - A Social Construction'

'Many homes, worldly concern expressions and everyday spaces detain to be irreconcilable and unwelcoming to deal with non-normal bodies (Andrews et al. 2012, 1928). With quote to either price or dead body size, critically suss out the different approaches interpreted by wellness geographers to the relationship amidst place, bodily differences and inequalities.\nMichael Oliver suggests that stack are non disab take or non- alter categorically, but everyone belongs somewhere on a continuum of ability (1990). save he argues the appendage of conventional attitudes towards balk as a subsequence of the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century in Britain, as people with impairments were unable to meet their duty to grow up in mainstream factories. This led to the marginalisation and separatism of disabled people, to areas out-of-door from the economically full-bodied society which had bittie public transport, sad education systems and few places of both work and leisure (Gleeson, 1999). This prove will explore how these attitudes have been kept up(p) in ripe society, specifically by the frameworks of the affectionate and medical checkup models of handicap in regards to public spaces and building design.\nDisability ceases to be something somebody inherently has, and becomes more of something that is through to a someone by somebody else (Oliver, 1998). To be disabled is to encounter experiences of exclusion, and to be faced with social, natural and environmental barriers. This follows the social model of disability which was developed by the Union of the physically Impaired Against Segregation, whereby on that point is a distinguishable difference amid disablement and impairment (UPIAS, 1976: 14). harm is a social bodily structure and is the act of ostracism which perpetuates social onerousness and institutional discrimination, such(prenominal) like that of gender, sex activity and race (Barnes, 1991). Disablement represe nts the absence of natural selection in the lives of th... '