GEOG 30617
Geographies of Disability and Mobility Justice
Tuesday, Friday 2:30 – 3:45 pm
Instructor: Rose Moulton

Issues of disability and mobility are increasingly featured in popular media, public policy debates, and representations of everyday lives. Yet, disabled people remain underrepresented, and disability remain under-examined as a normal aspect of human society. For human geographers, interested in spatial patterns and processes, disability and mobility raise important questions of justice and access. This course provides students with an introduction to what geographical research and practice have to say about disability and mobility. Approaching disability and mobility geographies as an interdisciplinary field spanning geography, urban studies, public health and sociology, the course examines themes such as: accessibility and urban and regional planning; transportation justice; accessibility as social justice; geographies of power; disablement; disability in the popular imaginary. The course critically considers the limitations of discussions that frame disabled people and disability through notions of abnormality and deficiency.

If you cannot register, please email Undergraduate Advisor Professor Geoffrey Fouad at geoffrey.fouad@hunter.cuny.edu.