Geographies in the American DeafWorld as institutional constructions of the deaf body in space: the sensescape model |
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Authors: | Russell S Rosen |
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Institution: | College of Staten Island, City University of New York, Staten Island, NY, USA |
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Abstract: | Space is a site where culture and body meet. It is a physical text of cultural constructions of the body that articulate personal, social and material functions and arrangements. The American DeafWorld consists of spaces where deaf and hard of hearing people are found. The geographies in the DeafWorld are the sites where different institutions create and imprint their ideologies, practices and properties pertaining to their sensory notions of the deaf body onto brick-and-mortar spaces in the DeafWorld. Sensescape is proffered as a theoretical model to describe DeafWorld institutional geographies. |
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Keywords: | Deaf culture geography institutions United States |
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