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Visual Impairment in the City: Young People’s Social Strategies for Independent Mobility

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dc.contributor.authorWorth, Nancy
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-31T16:20:44Z
dc.date.available2016-05-31T16:20:44Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the mobility strategies that visually impaired (VI) young people employ as they negotiate their daily lives in the city. In contrast to research which foregrounds difficulties navigating the built environment, the article provides new insights into how VI young people engage with the city as a social space, arguing that VI young people’s goal of achieving ‘unremarkable’ mobility is constrained by an ableist society that constantly marks them out, frustrating goals of independent mobility which are important to young people’s transitions to adulthood. Drawing on young people’s narratives, three mobility strategies of young people are examined: concealing VI with friends, performing VI with white canes and travelling with guide dogs. Each is evaluated for its potential to help VI young people achieve identities as ‘competent spatial actors'.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe author wishes to acknowledge financial support during the research from the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.en_US
dc.identifier.citationWorth, N. (2013) Visual Impairment in the City: Young People’s Social Strategies for Independent Mobility Urban Studies 50: 574-586, doi:10.1177/0042098012468898en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/31322
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUrban Studiesen_US
dc.rights.articlehttp://usj.sagepub.com/content/50/3/574.shorten_US
dc.subjectvisual impairment; mobility; young people; identity
dc.titleVisual Impairment in the City: Young People’s Social Strategies for Independent Mobilityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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