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The researcher: Mariela Yabo, Ph.D. Student.

Selected Conferences Presentations

"More than legislation: Talking about urban accessibility". Paper presented at the annual conference of the Disability Studies Center of the Hebrew University. Jerusalem, Israel. June, 2023.

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“Your request is touching”: Israeli disabled graduate students' struggle between activism and research". Paper presented at the Society for Disability Studies (SDS) Strand at the Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion, and Disability. Columbus, Ohio, USA [Online Conference], April 2020.

 

"From social services to urban planning: The case of municipal accessibility professionalization". Paper presented at:

-114th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA). New York City, New York, USA. August 2019.

-14th conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA). Manchester, UK. August 2019.

-Society for Disability Studies (SDS) Strand at the Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion, and Disability. Columbus, Ohio, USA, April 2018.

-49th annual meeting of the Israeli Sociological Association. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel, January 2018.

 

"Including young people with disabilities in young adults' centers in Israel - An Evaluation Study". Paper presented at

the 15th interdisciplinary conference of the Nordic Network on Disability Research (NNDR). Copenhagen, Denmark. May 2019.

 

"Disability Studies and Methodology: The implementation of Disability Studies' principles in organizational research". Paper presented at the 8th Biennial Conference of the Israeli Center of Qualitative Research. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel, February 2018.

 

Publications

Bitman, N., & Yabo, M. (2023). “Your request is touching”: Marginalization, weakness, and liminality experienced by disabled graduate students in Israel. Disability Studies Quarterly, 42(3-4). https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/8320/7867

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Dorfman, D & Yabo, M. (2020). The Professionalization of Urban Accessibility. Fordham Urban Law Journal, 47.

 https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol47/iss5/1/

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Masters Thesis: From Welfare to Urban Planning: Pioneering, Professionalization and Institutionalization of Accessibility for People with Disabilities in the Municipality of Tel-Aviv Jaffa, Department, University of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University.

Current Research: Urban Perspectives of Accessibility for People with Disabilities – Organizations Promoting Urban Accessibility

contact: yabom@bgu.ac.il    Tel. 972-54-5874032 

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