Paper short abstract:

Interpreted narratives of people who use wheelchairs reveal ways of negotiating and renewing commonsense, from the strategies they display to redefine and symbolically organize spaces that are not always accessible to them.

Paper long abstract:

Within a research on how people who use wheelchairs deal with everyday space, participants were invited to take photographs of places that they considered meaningful, and then bring them to collective discussions. We organized the conversations about the recorded images as narratives to be interpreted. While expressing a literal perspective of the world (from sitting bodies), these narratives reveal ways of negotiating and renewing commonsense, from the strategies that people in wheelchairs display to redefine and symbolically organize spaces that are not always accessible to them.