This work was supported by a grant from Shalem Fund
The right to a disabled parking permit under Israeli law embodies a duality between an assistive mobility tool and a reality of power gaps and structural stigma that undermines its purpose and contests its value. This duality was examined through a qualitative study focusing on permit use across life domains, exploring how its doubleness deepens existing tensions.
Beyond theorizing structural stigma linking individual experience to socio-political structures, the findings reveal a multidimensional, challenging daily struggle amid permit use, shaping the identity, social world, and functioning of people with physical mobility impairments. The study contributes significantly to this knowledge gap and identifies the system as a focal point for change, responsible both for ensuring the right and removing barriers to its realization.
Keywords: Accessibility, mobility, parking, disabled parking permit, disabled vehicle, disability rights, physical disability, power relations, structural stigma.
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