Hana PorkertováMendel University in Brno · Department of Law and Social Sciences
Hana Porkertová
Doctor of Philosophy
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Hana Porkertová is a sociologist at Mendel University in Brno, where she coordinates a project focused on experience of people with visual disability with urban space. She uses qualitative methods, which she modifies to connect experience not based on vision with sociology and human geography. To analyze constructions of disability and visual impairment, she uses post-structural approaches, mainly Deleuzo-Guattarian philosophy and actor–network theory.
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Using a case study of a kerb – the social stone – found at a tram traffic island, the text demonstrates the re/production of the ableist city and analyses processes of transforming such a city into an accessible space for people with disabilities. The authors apply actor-network theory to analyse the mutual construction of space and bodies. To unde...
Western society associates knowledge with vision while affiliating blindness with ignorance. Following critical disability studies and drawing upon non-structured interview data and ethnographic observations with visually disabled people, the article opposes this idea by examining how blind assemblages construct knowledge and highlight its heteroge...
The book Geography of Barriers: Examples of Good Barrier-free Practice offers a collection of texts that are interested in making space, services, and information accessible. Thus, the collection is primarily about barriers, their nature, localization, and possible effects. Under barriers, most people imagine material barriers for wheelchair users...
The book Geography of Barriers: Examples of Good Barrier-free Practice offers a collection of texts that are interested in making space, services, and information accessible. Thus, the collection is primarily about barriers, their nature, localization, and possible effects. Under barriers, most people imagine material barriers for wheelchair users...
The book Geography of Barriers: Examples of Good Barrier-free Practice offers a collection of texts that are interested in making space, services, and information accessible. Thus, the collection is primarily about barriers, their nature, localization, and possible effects. Under barriers, most people imagine material barriers for wheelchair users...
This article examines the everyday experience of visually disabled people with norms and normality and confronts it with three approaches discussed in disability studies: (i) the medical model, (ii) the social model, and (iii) critical disability studies. The most available model to the people in the study, as well as the most widespread approach i...
This chapter maps the development of the employment rate and income inequality in the remuneration of men and women over 50 in different sectors of the Czech national economy between 2010 and 2015. It is especially focused on the situation of women with regard to the public sector, where older women prevail. Using the Gender Pay Gap Index, it shows...
This article thematizes relations between visual impairment and urban space, drawing from the analytical perspective of actor-network theory (ANT). It traces the ways in which visually impaired people create specific connections with space and how they transform it. Urban space is configured for use by able-bodied persons, for whom movement within...
