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Sisnowski M. Journeys, Mobility and Flows: Accessibility Work in Berlin's Public Transport. Med Anthropol. 2021;40(8):785-798doi: 10.1080/01459740.2021.1946804.
Sisnowski, M. (2021). Journeys, Mobility and Flows: Accessibility Work in Berlin's Public Transport. Medical anthropology, 40(8), 785-798. https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2021.1946804
Sisnowski, Maja. "Journeys, Mobility and Flows: Accessibility Work in Berlin's Public Transport." Medical anthropology vol. 40,8 (2021): 785-798. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2021.1946804
Sisnowski M. Journeys, Mobility and Flows: Accessibility Work in Berlin's Public Transport. Med Anthropol. 2021 Nov-Dec;40(8):785-798. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2021.1946804. Epub 2021 Jul 07. PMID: 34233553.
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Med Anthropol. 2021 Nov-Dec;40(8):785-798. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2021.1946804. Epub 2021 Jul 07.

Journeys, Mobility and Flows: Accessibility Work in Berlin's Public Transport.

Medical anthropology

Maja Sisnowski

Affiliations

  1. Universiteit van Amsterdam.

PMID: 34233553 DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2021.1946804

Abstract

Demands for accessibility bring dis/abled bodies and in/accessible infrastructures together in mutually defining encounters. Through the case of accessibility in Berlin's public transport system, I explore how these encounters figure in practice. Specifically, I present movement through public transport as an object of knowledge and intervention in accompaniment services and advocacy for accessibility. I analyze three forms in which this movement figures: Journeys, Mobility and Flows. Each of these forms delimits bodies and infrastructure in specific ways. Their limits and capacities are thus not self-evident givens, but variously known and negotiated in the critical work of creating and maintaining accessibility.

Keywords: Accessibility; disability; ethnography; infrastructure; movement; public transport

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