Kitchin, Rob and Wilton, Rob (2000) Disability, Geography and Ethics. Ethics, Place and Environment, 3 (1). pp. 61-65. ISSN 1366-879X

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In recent years geographers have started to re-engage with issues of exclusion, social justice and moral philosophy, first explored by radical geographers in the 1970s. This re-engagement parallels the rapid growth in the 1990s of feminist and critical geographies. Geographers within these traditions have focused their attention on the intersection of issues such as identity, difference and space, and the ways in which socio-spatial processes reproduce material and non-material inequalities. Empirical and theoretical work has focused on a range of specific issues such as gender (patriarchy), race (racism), sexuality (homophobia) and class. To this list has recently been added disability (ableism). However, most critical geography research has concentrated on examining the production and maintenance of geographies of social exclusion. Only a small number of studies have engaged directly with these issues in the context of specific theories of social justice and moral philosophy, which are seemingly taken for granted (see Smith, 1994, 1997). One area where these ideas have been applied is in relation to data generation, where there has been a concern for research ethics and the power relationship between researcher and researched. For example, a number of articles have been published exploring issues such as production and situatedness of knowledge, representativeness, reflexivity, empowerment, emancipation, critical praxis and positionality, and how these might be best addressed (e.g. Katz, 1992; Robinson, 1994; Rose, 1997). In the collection of short position papers gathered here, the theme of ethics and moral philosophy is explicitly examined in relation to geography (as a research practice and institutional endeavour) and the lives of disabled people.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	The final and definitive form of this article, the Version of Record, has been published in Ethics, Place and Environment [2000] [copyright Taylor & Francis], available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/ DOI:10.1080/136687900110765
Keywords:	exclusion; socio-spatial processes; disability; geography; ethics;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > National Institute for Regional and Spatial analysis, NIRSA
Item ID:	3923
Depositing User:	Prof. Rob Kitchin
Date Deposited:	02 Oct 2012 15:17
Journal or Publication Title:	Ethics, Place and Environment
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/ http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cepe20
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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