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Title: | Pedestrian assemblages: Blind people’s walks as techno-sensory practices |
Other Titles: | Ensamblajes peatonales: Los andares a ciegas como prácticas tecno-sensoriales |
Author: | Cereceda Otárola, Marcos Sánchez Criado, Tomás |
Abstract: | How do blind people walk and cross the streets? This has been the guiding question, only simple at first glance, of our ethnographic study at the crossroads of Sensory Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies (STS), undertaken in the last six years in the city of Barcelona. In it we have followed different activists for the rights of people with “visual diversity” in their everyday urban displacements, and in their politicizations of urban infrastructures. Paying attention to the multiple and distributed agency that equips and dis/ables modes of moving about in the city, this question allows a description of the embodied, social, material and technical complexity that this mundane act entails. Our inquiry foregrounds two main elements: (a) the description of the sensory practices unfolded in blind walks; and (b) the description and close examination of the role played by non-human actors — animals and technologies — which constitute the “equipment” to walk as a blind person. Deepening urban anthropology’s material and embodied turn to the understanding of the circumstances of pedestrians, the present work wishes to highlight the relevance of considering pedestrian assemblages and the techno-sensory practices enabling particular types of displacements. A description around assemblages allows us to unfold a description of the city not as a place for the indifferent encounter of abled subjects, but as a complex ecology of supports and accompaniments to host bodily diversity |
Keywords: | Urban studies sensory anthropology pedestrian assemblages equipment techno-sensory practices |
DOI: | http://doi.org/10.11156/aibr.160108e |
Document type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Version: | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
Issue Date: | 2-Jan-2021 |
Publication license: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
Appears in Collections: | Articles cientÍfics Artículos |
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Cereceda_AIBR_Pedestrian.pdf | English version | 5,86 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
Cereceda_AIBR_Ensamblajes.pdf | Versión en castellano | 5,85 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
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