- #Extreme makeover home edition season 9 episode 25 series#
- #Extreme makeover home edition season 9 episode 25 tv#
The architectural salvation epic that is EMHE exemplifies the insight that the relationships between persons and place are mutually reinforcing until a dominant interpretation is secured.
#Extreme makeover home edition season 9 episode 25 tv#
It is within this semiotic matrix, defined by place theorists and postmodern theories of disability, that the ABC TV "reality" program Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ( EMHE) functions to interpret the image of people with disabilities. Popular visual media contributes a great deal to the illusion of "the way things are." 4 Place theorists recognize that definitions of place are dialectically related to persons in (or out of) that place. We reinforce these dominant interpretations of places until the interpretations themselves recede to make room for "the way things are." The insight from place theorists - geographers, philosophers, postcolonial theorists, and cultural theorists, among others - that places are never "naturally" endowed with meaning parallels the insight from contemporary disability theorists that there are no "natural" bodies: "The body can be explained as the object of the actions and interests of others." 3 Thus the "natural" body is a euphemism for agreed upon notions of, for example, male/female, straight/gay, young/old, white/black, healthy/ill, and 'able/unable/disabled. Generation after generation, the almost seamless interplay between ideology, practices, and the built environment constructs and reconstructs the identities we inhabit, from nation to body. 2 In like manner are bodies interpreted as "disabled." Average bodies, in need of reassurance as to their sufficiency, construct buildings to keep some people out or severely inconvenienced we construct bodies as "disabled" when we patronize, infantilize, or sanctify people with particular bodies, perpetuating and ultimately sedimenting their "otherness" to our "sameness." Generation after generation, ideologies, practices, and the built environment construct and reconstruct libraries as quiet places. As an example of this complex interplay, libraries are interpreted to be quiet places, thus we build the structure with sound absorbing carpeting and acoustic emendations for sound, but we build them as quiet places as well when we "shush" a person in a neighboring carrel, we glare at those breeching the quiet contract, or finally we see that the unrepentant transgressor is ejected from the place itself, and perhaps forbidden return.
#Extreme makeover home edition season 9 episode 25 series#
We live within and among a series of overlapping places: nation, city, neighborhood, home, and body, whose meanings are formed and reformed at the intersection of ideology, practices, and the built environment.
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