This is a paper problematising the notion of "vulnerable" (with some
links to more in the references):
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/ppp-online/issue_1_300312/article_5_full.html
On 19/10/2012, Larry Arnold <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> And pre internal combustion engine the streets had a different pollution
> problem, notwithstanding road accidents were still commonplace, being run
> over by a heavy but slow cart was as devastating as being hit by a fast
> car,
> look at the literature of the times, it can inform us a great deal about
> what it was like to live in those days.
>
> In a time when ones own energy was needed for everyday living there was a
> whole different set of disabling criteria, however these days it has moved
> in this energy consuming society towards increasing the disability of those
> who are less able to adapt to the technological and IT demands of society.
>
> Larry
>
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>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Maria
>> Sent: 19 October 2012 10:48
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>> Subject: Re: Vulnerable adults / violent streets
>>
>> Hi Lauro,
>> I'm not sure but I think language is an element of confusion in present
> societies;
>> especially in the communities that were/are oppressed. If we are to
>> change
> attitude,
>> thinking/action, our terminology should re-new. I suggest the term
> pre-social model
>> society, similar prehistoric society, pre-modernist society, and explain
> the external
>> environments barriers and non safety therein for all people, ex pre curb
> cut, not only
>> were people who use a wheelchair unable to use the streets but men with
> heavier push
>> cart and women with baby strollers had difficulties that they were not
> aware of until
>> their middle age when they developed back issues or slipped fell and got
> injured.
>> I hope I explained that one OK.
>> Maria
>>
>
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