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HERNANDEZ FLORES, Mariana. Ciegos conquistando la ciudad de México: vulnerabilidad y accesibilidad en un entorno discapacitante. Nueva antropol [online]. 2012, vol.25, n.76, pp.59-81. ISSN 0185-0636.

Beyond the outfitting of facilities in urban space, accessibility is a right that guarantees handicapped people the opportunity to live independently, with full participation in social life. Therefore, free access to the physical context, transportation and information becomes a problem requiring urgent attention, given the evidence of cities that offer little accessibility. In this article, the author examines the socio-spatial production of handicapping contexts from an anthropological perspective, analyzing the spatial vulnerability that visually handicapped individuals undergo during their journeys through Mexico City. In view of this disadvantage, people with visual handicaps develop strategies to make their moving about less unsafe at the same time they appropriate space both physically and symbolically. The author also presents some of the spatial representations of Mexico City made by the people interviewed. These are not simple (neutral) means of recording the urban experience, but instead are a form of conceiving space, transformed into powerful tools of spatial control.

Palabras llave : blind; spatial representations; journeys; accessibility.

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