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Access as Practice: Disability, Accessible Design, and History
Ist Teil von
Reviews in American history, 2020-12, Vol.48 (4), p.618-624
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Using examples from architectural and product design, these historians illustrate how the twin hammers of ableism and neoliberalism have shaped the contours of access and the material realities of disabled people and those in close relations with them, as well as nondisabled people. According to Williamson and Hamraie, disabled people fundamentally rejected this view of access, disability, and citizenship. In response to the challenge of accessible archival sources, Hamraie and Williamson drew heavily from the few known disability history repositories with national scopes of material, including the Bancroft Library's Disability Rights and Independent Living Collections, the University of Illinois's online archive, and the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's disability collection. Hamraie's Open Access digital archive includes Contra*—a podcast filled with interviews about historical research, access design, and grassroots community engagement.4 Its multimodal index, episode summaries, plain language, glossaries, and transcripts provide a model for all humanities scholars who seek to practice access and extend the