Themed section: Deaf geographies, an emerging field
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Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, social commentators fre-quently wrote about the unique relationship Deaf sign language users havewith space. However, scholarly work in geography did little to address the dis-tinct perspectives that are opened through engagement with the D/deaf. Ear-liest works in geography that incorporated D/deaf perspectives were largelyunpublished graduate theses that focused on community building and devel-opment among D/deaf individuals (for a compiled list of resources, seehttps://deafgeographies.com/resources/). Initial instances of geographers pub-lishing on the topic followed suit, with Skelton’s and Valentine’s seminal 2003work leading the way for an exploration of D/deaf identity in the literature.