Tensions and Escapes in Independent Living Infrastructures for People With Disabilities Under COVID-19
Joan Moyà-Köhler,
Andrea García-Santesmases,
Lluvi Farré
Abstract:The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the structural deficiencies of residential care homes. In this context, living arrangements based on the independent living paradigm emerged as more resilient care infrastructures in terms of preserving life. But what kind of lives have they preserved, and who has decided what forms those lives took? Drawing on an ethnographic study of two care infrastructures for people with physical and intellectual disabilities living independently in Barcelona, the present study illustrate… Show more
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