New cultural geographies of disability: Asian values and the accessibility ideal

Social and Cultural Geography

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 77-86

  Komardjaja, Inge ^a  

^a Cipaku Indah X/2   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Barrier free design; Collectivism; Human assistance; Independent personal mobility; Professional disabled people; Unequal status

Indexed keywords

EID: 14844364447     PISSN: 14649365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649360020028285     Document Type: Article

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