Unworthy of Space - An Investigation of Hegemonic Ideologies Within the Treatment of People with Physical Disabilities and Poverty-Stricken Individuals

dc.contributor.advisorReaume, Geoffrey
dc.contributor.advisorGilmour, Joan
dc.contributor.authorEllerby, Kristin
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-23T16:10:17Z
dc.date.available2017-08-23T16:10:17Z
dc.date.issued2017-08-18
dc.descriptionMajor Research Paper (Master's), Critical Disability Studies, School of Health Policy and Management,Faculty of Health, York University
dc.description.abstractThis paper will engage in an investigation of the socio-spatial oppression experienced by people with physical disabilities (PWPD), and the poverty-stricken populace in Ontario. We will begin by exploring the histories of both aforementioned groups with the intention of ascertaining when, and for what reasons societal exclusion and oppression commenced. We will continue on to an examination of the manner in which disability and poverty have been perceived and accounted for within Canadian, and more specifically, Ontario law. Then an investigation of the capitalist ideologies that are evidently present in the enactment of both the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), and the Ontario Safe Streets Act (OSSA), that function to socially, politically, and economically oppress both groups to the benefit of the hegemonic will take place. We will then examine the socio-spatial neglect experienced by PWPD, and individuals living in poverty, and the manner in which the AODA and the OSSA have been complicit in the marginality experienced by both groups. In comparing the societal exclusion of both, while simultaneously examining the ideologies used to justify such treatment, this paper intends to make apparent the numerous similarities in the hegemonic oppression experienced by the aforesaid groups, and posit that engaging in activism as a collective may assist in obtaining equality.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/33800
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsThe copyright for the paper content remains with the author.
dc.subjectoppressionen_US
dc.subjectPeople With Physical Disabilities (PWPD)en_US
dc.subjectpovertyen_US
dc.subjectOntarioen_US
dc.subjectAccessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)en_US
dc.titleUnworthy of Space - An Investigation of Hegemonic Ideologies Within the Treatment of People with Physical Disabilities and Poverty-Stricken Individualsen_US
dc.typeMajor Research Paper

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