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Hacking the Underground: Disability, Infrastructure, and London's Public Transport System - Feminist Technosciences Velho, Raquel (Assistant Professor in Science & Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Hacking the Underground: Disability, Infrastructure, and London's Public Transport System - Feminist Technosciences
Velho, Raquel (Assistant Professor in Science & Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Reveals how knowledge from the margins shapes infrastructures"Minding the gap" while using a wheelchair on the London Underground goes beyond a sharp eye and careful foot placement to avoid a fall: it can entail carrying and deploying a portable ramp to embark and disembark or carefully mapping out a custom route ahead of time.
251 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 21, 2023 |
| ISBN13 | 9780295751931 |
| Publishers | University of Washington Press |
| Pages | 202 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 15 mm · 470 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Herzig, Rebecca (Professor and Chair, Bates College) |
| Series Editor | Subramaniam, Banu (Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) |