Journal article
Feasibility and the care-full just city: Overlaps and contrasts in the views of people with disability and local government officers on social inclusion
Jerome N Rachele, Ilan Wiesel, Ellen van Holstein, Vickie Feretopoulos, Tessa de Vries, Celia Green, Ellen Bicknell
CITIES | ELSEVIER SCI LTD | Published : 2020
Abstract
In this paper we consider how ‘feasibility’ considerations in urban policymaking fit within wider theories of the care-full just city. Specifically, we consider practical ways to bring together what people with disability consider the most important initiatives to enhance their social inclusion in the city, and the perceptions of local government officers about what initiatives are feasible to implement in the context of complex urban governance structures. While feasibility and care-full justice might appear incompatible, we argue that notions of responsibility, competence, resourcing and action are all integral to both ‘feasibility’ and the care-full just city. This discussion is informed ..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council Centre for Research Excellence in Disability and Health
Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
This study received funding from the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute and Melbourne Disability Institute at The University of Melbourne, and Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation. JNR and CG are supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council Centre for Research Excellence in Disability and Health (APP1116385), and JNR an Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP170101434) EvH is supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP180102191).