Un/safety as placemaking: Disabled people’s socio-spatial negotiation of fear of violent crime

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dc.contributor.authorEdwards, Claire
dc.contributor.editorCourage, Cara
dc.contributor.editorBorrup, Tom
dc.contributor.editorJackson, Maria Rosario
dc.contributor.editorLegge, Kylie
dc.contributor.editorMcKeown, Anita
dc.contributor.editorPlatt, Louise
dc.contributor.editorSchupbach, Jason
dc.contributor.funderIrish Research Council, 2016 ‘Research for Policy and Society’ Scheme
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-24T14:50:07Z
dc.date.available2026-03-24T14:50:07Z
dc.date.issued2020-12
dc.description.abstractAmidst growing international recognition of the disproportionate experience of hostility, violence and hate crime perpetrated against people with disabilities, this chapter explores how disabled people’s everyday, localised, practices of placemaking are bound up with notions of fear and safety in contemporary Ireland. Despite a burgeoning global disability rights agenda which stresses disabled people’s right to live autonomously in the community free from violence and abuse, research has recognised the often mundane and everyday acts of oppression that confront people with disabilities. The chapter seeks to shed light on the material, affective and discursive intertwining of disability and un/safety in local processes of placemaking, such that the experience of un/safety and fear of violent crime works through complex assemblages of bodies, emotions, memories, objects and environments. In particular, it aims to demonstrate how un/safety, as an embodied and affectual phenomenon intimately tied up with disabled people’s perception and understanding of place, interacts with, and sometimes exceeds place-based ‘technical fixes’ (more lighting, or better street design) proposed by policy initiatives to address issues of crime and community safety.en
dc.description.sponsorshipIrish Research Council under its 2016 ‘Research for Policy and Society’ Scheme.
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dc.identifier.authororcidEdwards, Claire§0000-0002-4325-0339
dc.identifier.authororcidCourage, Cara
dc.identifier.authororcidBorrup, Tom
dc.identifier.authororcidJackson, Maria Rosario
dc.identifier.authororcidLegge, Kylie
dc.identifier.authororcidMcKeown, Anita
dc.identifier.authororcidPlatt, Louise
dc.identifier.authororcidSchupbach, Jason
dc.identifier.citationEdwards, C 2020, Un/safety as placemaking: Disabled people’s socio-spatial negotiation of fear of violent crime. in C Courage, T Borrup, M R Jackson, K Legge, A McKeown, L Platt & J Schupbach (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Placemaking. Routledge, pp. 159-169. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429270482-21
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9780429270482-21
dc.identifier.endpage169
dc.identifier.isbn9780429270482
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-4325-0339/work/209597511
dc.identifier.startpage159
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/18657
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.relation.ispartofThe Routledge Handbook of Placemaking
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dc.rights.accessrightsopen access
dc.rights.licensenameAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.statusPeer reviewed
dc.subjectDisability
dc.subjectFear of violent crime
dc.subjectPlacemaking
dc.subjectSafety
dc.titleUn/safety as placemaking: Disabled people’s socio-spatial negotiation of fear of violent crimeen
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