ABSTRACT
Dwarfism continues to be a source of fascination and confusion in contemporary society. This chapter addresses dwarfism within geographies of identity and social space. It focuses on three geographical aspects of dwarfism. The chapter explores ways in which public space is experienced differently by people with dwarfism. It describes ways in which these little people arrange and adapt their private residential spaces in ways that challenge and reflect dominant norms of height. The chapter follows the narratives of a particular family of little people who reveal the ways in which their identities and the corresponding spaces in which they are lived are mutually constitutive. Considered by many to constitute a physical disability, dwarfism is situated within various traditions of geographical research on disabilities. Geographical approaches to physical disability fall into two categories. One of these categories consists of research on the conditions of particular disabilities in quantitative terms of statistical analysis.
