Sub-politics definition
Sub-politics means arrangement from below” (Beck, 1997, p. 104). Urban disabil- ity activism has targeted those institutions responsible for various aspects of city form and function. Increasingly ‘urban arrange- ment’ has become contested, although the struggle, often manifested as localised pro- test actions, does not yet amount to a sys- temic war on the enclosed city. Moreover, disabled people have focused their activism on the political city—regional and national capitals—in order to maximise the profile and impact of their campaigns. As Dorn (1994) explains, a common feature of dis- ability activism in the US has been dramatic seizures of public spaces in and around places such as courthouses, legislatures and public transport systems. In recent years, the urban sub-politics of disability has been marked by outbursts of frustration with the perceived inadequacies of rights-based legis- lation and regimes of accessibility regulation. One group in particular, the American Dis- abled for Accessible Public Transportation (ADAPT), has been a prominent sub- political force that has literally thrown itself against the barriers of enclosure and ex-