Main description:

Provides a new and innovative approach through an ethnographic and people-centred conceptualization of "access", and a consideration of why social change appears to be slowing down, hampered or even sidestepped.

Provides empirical studies but also elaborates on theoretical perspectives and concepts.

Provides chapters written from a range of subjects including disability studies, social work, sociology, ethnology, social anthropology, political science and organization studies.

Contents:

Introduction: Into the fields of stubborn obstacles and lingering exclusion. Part 1 - City and transport. 1. Accessible enough? Legitimising half-measures of accessibility in Swedish urban environments. 2. The bus trip: Constraints, hierarchies and injustice. 3. Monitoring the standard - here, now and in person: Detecting accessibility faults as an engaged citizen. 4. Traveling insecurely: The association of security and accessibility in public transport. Part 2 - Knowledge and education. 5. Struggles for inclusion: The unrecognised toil of hearing-impaired students. 6. Gatekeepers and gatekeeping: On participation and marginalisation in everyday life. 7. Still waiting for the hand to be raised: On being crip killjoys at an ableist university. 8. Access to sexuality: Disabled people's experiences of multiple barriers. 9. New barriers and new possibilities: Confronting language inaccessibility in and around a pandemic. Part 3 - Institution, law and history. 10. It is supposed to be a home: Barriers to everyday life decisions in group homes. 11. Making the law invisible: How bureaucratic resistance makes support inaccessible. 12. Using building requirements as a means to create inclusion: Accessibility and usability at a crossroads. Afterword.