Мodes of Temporality in the Narratives about the Accessibility of the Urban Environment

Yarskaya-Smirnova, Valentina N.; Yarskaya-Smirnova, Elena R.

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Мodes of Temporality in the Narratives about the Accessibility of the Urban Environment

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S013216250010208-1-1

DOI

10.31857/S013216250010208-1

Publication type

Article

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Published

Authors

Valentina N. Yarskaya-Smirnova

Occupation: Professor
Affiliation: Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov
Address: Russian Federation, Saratov

Elena R. Yarskaya-Smirnova

Occupation: Professor, Head of International Laboratory of Social Integration Research
Affiliation: National Research University “Higher School of Economics”
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow

Journal name

Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya

Edition

Issue 2

Pages

92-102

Abstract

Expanding the accessibility of space and the environment is one of the central tasks of social policy and public attention, strengthening equality and justice. At first glance, such a problem is primarily revealed in spatial metaphors, such as barriers, restrictions, access, borders. However, spatial logic only partially allows us to explain the phenomena of oppression and emancipation, inclusion and exclusion. The social model allows us to map and identify the disabling contours of the spatial environment, but underestimates the patterns of oppression produced by temporal factors. The article reveals the cognitive possibilities of the temporal turn in studies of the accessibility of the urban environment for people with disabilities. The analysis is based on qualitative interviews in four Russian cities with activists from among people with disabilities. The authors consider the opinions of informants about how relations with social and physical environment evolve over the years, and what changes occur in the moments of everyday interaction. We are talking about such macrostructural characteristics of temporality as age, season, obsolescence and updating of technologies, changes of political priorities. Other modes of temporality are the changes in social attitudes, the intensity of collective actions, the transformation of the perception of accessible environment. The prospect of everyday temporality is revealed at the micro level of social interactions, in which the rhythms of urban life are violated and reconfigured, subjectivity is revealed, and acts of exclusion and inclusion occur. People with disabilities, our contemporaries and interlocutors, in their narratives, revealed the connection between moments of time and social phenomena and processes, reflected the changes occurring in themselves and the environment in the processes of their interactions.

Keywords

temporality, time, disability, activists, city, mobility, everyday life, qualitative interview, walk along interview

Acknowledgment

The research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, grant № 18-18-00321.

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24.02.2021

Publication date

25.03.2021

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GOST	Yarskaya-Smirnova V., Yarskaya-Smirnova E. Мodes of Temporality in the Narratives about the Accessibility of the Urban Environment // Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya – 2021. – Issue 2 C. 92-102 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/socis/s013216250010208-1-1-en (circulation date: 21.03.2025). DOI: 10.31857/S013216250010208-1
MLA	Yarskaya-Smirnova, Valentina N, Yarskaya-Smirnova, Elena R "Мodes of Temporality in the Narratives about the Accessibility of the Urban Environment." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya 2 (2021):92-102. DOI: 10.31857/S013216250010208-1
APA	Yarskaya-Smirnova V., Yarskaya-Smirnova E. (2021). Мodes of Temporality in the Narratives about the Accessibility of the Urban Environment. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya (2), pp.92-102 DOI: 10.31857/S013216250010208-1

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