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by Raquel Velho; Banu Subramaniam (Editor); Rebecca Herzig (Editor)

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Reveals how knowledge from the margins shapes infrastructures

"Minding the gap" while using a wheelchair on the London Underground goes beyond a sharp eye and careful foot placement to avoid a fall: it can entail carrying and deploying a portable ramp to embark and disembark or carefully mapping out a custom route ahead of time. The extensive infrastructure of London's public transportation system requires constant improvisation from users who move through the system differently than nondisabled people do. Centering the voices of disabled passengers, Hacking the Underground highlights how marginalized groups subvert and ultimately transform infrastructures, actively shaping them.

Raquel Velho draws on emancipatory action research in London, capturing the hegemonic character of infrastructures without losing the experiences and actions of marginalized users. Proposing a crip feminist and profoundly relational approach to infrastructure, Velho illustrates how the built environment holds the potential for both inclusionary and exclusionary world-building.

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  • Title Hacking the Underground: Disability, Infrastructure, and London's Public Transport System
  • Author Raquel Velho; Banu Subramaniam (Editor); Rebecca Herzig (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 202
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Washington Press
  • Publication date 2023-11-21
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780295751948 / 0295751940
  • Weight 0.67 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.46 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.17 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Physically Challenged
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects People with disabilities - Transportation -, Local transit - Barrier-free design -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2023027629
  • Dewey Decimal Code 362.409

About the author

Raquel Velho is assistant professor of science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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