Geographies of Crip Temporalities: Time in Everydayness of People with Disabilities

The project studies the relationship between disability and time. It reacts to the fact that geography has viewed disability chiefly through disabling spaces while disabling times have
been neglected. The project focuses on how time and disability intersect in everyday situations. It asks how people with disability encounter normative conceptions of time and what alternative temporalities they create. The analysis uses the perspective of ‘crip temporalities’ and the critical concept of ‘chrononormativity’, which show the everydayness of people with disabilities as being confined by time normatives but also as liberated from these normatives. The project is built on qualitative research methods—in-depth interviews, diaries and focus groups, exploring the everyday temporalities of people with various disabilities. The main contributions are the interconnection of crip temporalities and disability geography, the development of disability studies in the Czech Republic, articulation of hitherto overlooked forms of ableism and the emancipation of ab-normal temporalities.