ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the broadening of work on geographies of disability and a continued commitment to a sense that better understanding of marginalising processes can result in improved lives of disabled people and those living with chronic illness. Recent biomedical and technological advances challenge the agenda of disability geographies further. Research in disability geography shows a commitment to social justice issues and a desire for a politics and ethics of research that respects and is inclusive of those who may be affected by research findings. For Shakespeare the primary issue is that of distributory justice, related to inequalities of access to services both within a state and globally. Social and technological changes of the twenty-first century further complicate how the effects of new body knowledges form a context of disability and chronic illness experience and body politics. The post-structuralist informed accounts have embraced the body, centring the concept of embodiment in drawing connections between relations of power and lived experience.
