Detailed Information on Publication Record
2016
Zkušenost bez zraku: příležitost pro reflexi prostorového normativu
OSMAN, Robert and Lucie POSPÍŠILOVÁBasic information
Original name
Zkušenost bez zraku: příležitost pro reflexi prostorového normativu
Name in Czech
Zkušenost bez zraku: příležitost pro reflexi prostorového normativu
Name (in English)
Experience without Sight: The Opportunity for Reflection of Normative Space
Authors
OSMAN, Robert (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Lucie POSPÍŠILOVÁ (203 Czech Republic)
Edition
Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum, 2016, 1213-0028
Other information
Language
Czech
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
10508 Physical geography
Country of publisher
Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
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RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14310/16:00108687
Organization unit
Faculty of Science
Keywords (in Czech)
osoby nevidomé; normativní prostor; abstraktní prostor; performativita
Keywords in English
visually impaired people; normative space; abstract space; performativity
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Reviewed
Změněno: 11/5/2020 09:26, Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS.
V originále
The paper questions the dominant representation of space (normative space) and its visuality in the case of spatial experience without sight. While the relationships between individuals and spaces are differentiated, normative space (re)produces the conception of one depersonalised and thus disembodied space and denies alternative conceptions of spaces. The aim of the paper is to present the process of independent experiencing of new spaces by visually impaired people. This experience is interpreted in the context of two theories: Lefebvre’s production of space and Butler’s theory of performativity. Our results are based on interviews with 16 visually impaired people and 2 people with knowledge about visual impairment from their profession. The interview partners learn two sets of spatial information: ‘information for communication with others’ and ‘information necessary for spatial mobility’. While the first set of information is required to become part of the visual world and reveal the performative (re)production of the visuality of space, the second set of information is connected to non-visual experience and thus makes it possible to look beyond the normative space, to see visuality as a norm, and to start to reflect on the political connotation of spatial conceptions.
In English
The paper questions the dominant representation of space (normative space) and its visuality in the case of spatial experience without sight. While the relationships between individuals and spaces are differentiated, normative space (re)produces the conception of one depersonalised and thus disembodied space and denies alternative conceptions of spaces. The aim of the paper is to present the process of independent experiencing of new spaces by visually impaired people. This experience is interpreted in the context of two theories: Lefebvre’s production of space and Butler’s theory of performativity. Our results are based on interviews with 16 visually impaired people and 2 people with knowledge about visual impairment from their profession. The interview partners learn two sets of spatial information: ‘information for communication with others’ and ‘information necessary for spatial mobility’. While the first set of information is required to become part of the visual world and reveal the performative (re)production of the visuality of space, the second set of information is connected to non-visual experience and thus makes it possible to look beyond the normative space, to see visuality as a norm, and to start to reflect on the political connotation of spatial conceptions.