Feasibility and the care-full just city: Overlaps and contrasts in the views of people with disability and local government officers on social inclusion

《Feasibility and the care-full just city: Overlaps and contrasts in the views of people with disability and local government officers on social inclusion》

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作者: Jerome N. Rachele;Ilan Wiesel;Ellen van Holstein;Vickie Feretopoulos;Tessa de Vries;Celia Green;Ellen Bicknell

关键字: Disability;Ethics of care;Care-full justice;Social inclusion;Group concept mapping

作者单位: Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia;College of Health and Biomedicine, Victoria University, Australia;School of Geography, The University of Melbourne, Australia;City of Melbourne, Australia;Melbourne Disability Institute, The University of Melbourne, Australia;Centre for Social Impact, School of Business, University of New South Wales Canberra, Australia;Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia;College of Health and Biomedicine, Victoria University, Australia;School of Geography, The University of Melbourne, Australia;City of Melbourne, Australia;Melbourne Disability Institute, The University of Melbourne, Australia;Centre for Social Impact, School of Business, University of New South Wales Canberra, Australia

摘要: 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 by empirical data from a research project undertaken in the City of Melbourne, Australia, following a mixed-method approach called group concept mapping. We organised a series of structured workshops with people with physical and mobility, sensory, intellectual, and psychosocial disabilities, and with government staff, disability advocates, and academics to collect ideas on how to enhance social inclusion for people with disability in the City of Melbourne, and to rate the importance and feasibility of those ideas.