Event Detail
A Discussion on Accessibility from the Perspective of Disability Studies
Place : Kule (Tower) 2. Floor
Date : 01.11.2018
Time : 14:30 – 16:00
Speaker : Dikmen Bezmez
Language : English
Purpose and Content
This seminar approaches accessibility from the perspective of disability studies. Disability studies’ focus goes beyond the individual body/impairment and emphasizes the disabling aspects of social structures. In this framework, this presentation will discuss accessibility in the light of historical, economic and social structures and will focus on disability in its relation to capitalism, the construction of disabling ideologies, disabling urban design and the disability movement.
Dikmen Bezmez
Dikmen Bezmez received her Ph.D. from Binghamton University, Department of Sociology in 2008. In her dissertation she focused on urban studies. Since 2009, she has been conducting research in the field of disability studies. She co-edited (with Sibel Yardımcı and Yıldırım Şentürk) a disability studies reader in Turkish, Disability Studies: Looking from the Perspective of Social Sciences (Koç University Press, 2011). She published in academic journals such as Disability & Society, and Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. She spent the 2016-2017 academic year as a Marie Curie fellow in England, where she conducted field work on disabled people’s experiences of rehabilitation processes.