Disabling Marketplace

Leighanne Higgins began studying marketplace accessibility for consumers with disabilities in 2016. She is Chair of the Academy of Marketing's Special Interest Group on Marketplace Access and has published in leading journals such as the Journal of Consumer Research, Annals of Tourism Research, Marketing Theory, and Journal of Marketing Management.Katharina C Husemann research lies in consumer culture theory, and explores consumer experiences of, or responses to, a globalized, accelerated, and digitalized consumer culture. She is published in outlets such as Journal of Consumer Research, Harvard Business Review, Psychology & Marketing, Journal of Business Research and Journal of Marketing Management.Anica Zeyen researches disability inclusion in work and leisure using lived experience-based qualitative methods. Her work and advocacy aim to create a society where everyone can participate. She publishes widely and engages in public scholarship through exhibitions, podcasts, and documentaries.

• Introduction: The disabling marketplace: towards a conceptualisation 1. Embodied interaction: a turn to better understand disabling marketplaces and consumer vulnerability 2. Conceptualising the (dis)abling marketplace through value creation and destruction 3. Exploring the higher education experiences of students living with disabilities: an online MBA case study 4. The social model and consumers with disabilities research: contributions, criticisms, and call for new perspectives 5. Disability and well-being: towards a Capability Approach for marketplace access 6. Aneuploidy