„Wait, really, stop, stop!“: Go-Along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies

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Authors

PORKERTOVÁ Hana OSMAN Robert POSPÍŠILOVÁ Lucie DOBOŠ Pavel KOPECKÁ Zuzana

Year of publication 2024
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Qualitative Research
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Faculty of Science

Citation
Web https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14687941231224595
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14687941231224595
Keywords ableism; ableist methodology; disability; Go-along interviews; mobile methods; post qualitative inquiry; visual disability
Description Despite the growing interest in walking methods in disability research, their methodological difficulties are rarely examined. Therefore, we debate the challenges of doing go-along interviews with visually disabled people when geographically studying blind experience with urban space. The article is divided into two parts. The methodological part examines the difficulties we encountered to contribute to the critical discussion of the ableist nature of both methodologies and post qualitative inquiry, and their interconnection with ableist conceptions of walking, talking, and space. Second, we discuss the epistemological consequences of go-along interviews, which have the potential to challenge existing thinking, ableist conceptions of space, and, consequently, the given discipline. The result is a constructivist conception of science that modifies human geography through visual disability and visual disability through human geography.
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