In the field of Deaf Geographies, one neglected area is that of the individual deaf body and how individual deaf bodies can produce deaf space in isolation from one another. Much of the work published in the field talks about collectively or socially produced deaf spaces through interaction between two or more deaf people. However, with deaf children increasingly being educated in mainstream schools with individual provisions, and the old social networks and institutions of deaf communities coming under threat by the closure of deaf clubs and changing work practices, more research on the way in which individuals can produce their own deaf spaces and navigate those spaces is needed. In this paper, I outline two possible theoretical approaches, that of Lefebvre’s productive gestures to produce social space, and Bourdieu’s habitus, capital and hexis. I suggest that these theories can be productively utilised to better understand the individual basis of the production of deaf spaces.

在聋人地理领域，一个被忽视的领域是单个聋人的身体以及单个聋人如何相互隔离地产生聋人的空间。该领域发表的许多作品都谈论通过两个或更多聋人之间的互动来集体或社会生产的聋人空间。但是，随着聋哑儿童在主流学校中接受有个别规定的教育越来越多，聋哑俱乐部的关闭和不断变化的工作习惯正对聋哑社区的旧社会网络和机构造成威胁，因此人们对如何生产聋哑儿童的方式进行了更多研究。拥有自己的聋人空间并在这些空间中导航。在本文中，我概述了两种可能的理论方法，即列斐伏尔的产生社会空间的生产姿态，以及布迪厄的惯性，资本和hexis。