Understanding Disability Discrimination Law through Geography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Law and liberal legalism
Law, geography, and disability : revealing the idealised spatialities of disability discrimination legislation
Deconstructing liberal discourses in service provision
The DDA and the new managerialism in higher education
Accessing the ivory tower; the importance of institutional geographies
Storytelling; the voices of disabled students in higher education
Law's role in creating inclusive environments for disabled people.

Examining the UK Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) in comparison to its counterparts in the USA and Australia, this book focuses on how it is being interpreted and acted upon in the context of higher education, a key area of national attention in the UK. It also evaluates this law in the context of the larger project of civil rights legislation and demonstrates that geography can be used to explain law and legal arguments by highlighting their subjectivity and by emphasizing the importance of place, specificity and context.