Experience without Sight: The Opportunity for Reflection of Normative Space

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F16%3A00108687" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/16:00108687 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/68145535:_____/16:00470296 RIV/00216208:11310/16:10328539

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.genderonline.cz/cs/issue/40-rocnik-17-cislo-1-2016-telo-a-telesnost-ve-feministicke-teorii-a-vyzkumu/475" target="_blank" >http://www.genderonline.cz/cs/issue/40-rocnik-17-cislo-1-2016-telo-a-telesnost-ve-feministicke-teorii-a-vyzkumu/475</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/12130028.2016.17.1.256" target="_blank" >10.13060/12130028.2016.17.1.256</a>

Result language

čeština

Original language name

Zkušenost bez zraku: příležitost pro reflexi prostorového normativu

Original language description

The paper questions the dominant representation of space (normative space) and its visuality in the case of spatial experience without sight. While the relationships between individuals and spaces are differentiated, normative space (re)produces the conception of one depersonalised and thus disembodied space and denies alternative conceptions of spaces. The aim of the paper is to present the process of independent experiencing of new spaces by visually impaired people. This experience is interpreted in the context of two theories: Lefebvre’s production of space and Butler’s theory of performativity. Our results are based on interviews with 16 visually impaired people and 2 people with knowledge about visual impairment from their profession. The interview partners learn two sets of spatial information: ‘information for communication with others’ and ‘information necessary for spatial mobility’. While the first set of information is required to become part of the visual world and reveal the performative (re)production of the visuality of space, the second set of information is connected to non-visual experience and thus makes it possible to look beyond the normative space, to see visuality as a norm, and to start to reflect on the political connotation of spatial conceptions.

Czech name

Zkušenost bez zraku: příležitost pro reflexi prostorového normativu

Czech description

The paper questions the dominant representation of space (normative space) and its visuality in the case of spatial experience without sight. While the relationships between individuals and spaces are differentiated, normative space (re)produces the conception of one depersonalised and thus disembodied space and denies alternative conceptions of spaces. The aim of the paper is to present the process of independent experiencing of new spaces by visually impaired people. This experience is interpreted in the context of two theories: Lefebvre’s production of space and Butler’s theory of performativity. Our results are based on interviews with 16 visually impaired people and 2 people with knowledge about visual impairment from their profession. The interview partners learn two sets of spatial information: ‘information for communication with others’ and ‘information necessary for spatial mobility’. While the first set of information is required to become part of the visual world and reveal the performative (re)production of the visuality of space, the second set of information is connected to non-visual experience and thus makes it possible to look beyond the normative space, to see visuality as a norm, and to start to reflect on the political connotation of spatial conceptions.

Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10508 - Physical geography

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum

ISSN

1213-0028

e-ISSN

1805-7632

Volume of the periodical

17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

63-76

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84996606942