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Enacting Blind Spaces and Spatialities: A Sociological Study of Blindness Related to Space, Environment and Interaction
Author(s) -
Måseide Per,
Grøttland Håvar
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
symbolic interaction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.874
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1533-8665
pISSN - 0195-6086
DOI - 10.1002/symb.194
Subject(s) - blindness , physical space , space (punctuation) , sociology , social space , ethnography , social relation , psychology , social psychology , social science , anthropology , computer science , geography , medicine , cartography , optometry , operating system
Lack of eyesight generates blind spaces. Blind spaces often enacted together with sighted are different from visual spaces in important ways. Sharing physical and social space with sighted may imply special challenges for blind persons with regard to interaction order and social identities. The article is based on ethnographic data with the purpose to describe enactment and management of physical and social spaces for blind born persons in different settings. It focuses on the physical and social plasticity of blind spaces and the mediated, practiced and often toolic relationship between body, self and physical and social environments.