Hacking the Underground: Disability, Infrastructure, and London's Public Transport System (Feminist Technosciences)

Velho, Raquel

ISBN 10: 0295751940 / ISBN 13: 9780295751948

Edité par University of Washington Press, 2023

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• Titre: Hacking the Underground: Disability, Infrastructure, and London's Public Transport System (Feminist Technosciences)
• Éditeur: University of Washington Press
• Date de parution: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0295751940
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780295751948
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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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.

À propos des auteurs

Raquel Velho is an assistant professor in science & technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. This is her first book.

Banu Subramaniam is professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of two award-winning books: Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism (Washington, 2019) and Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity (Illinois, 2014).

Rebecca Herzig is professor of gender and sexuality studies at Bates College. She is the author of Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America (Rutgers University Press, 2006) and the coeditor of The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics (MIT Press, 2009).