Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life
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- Synopsis
- In this book, the author intervenes in the competitive, productivity-focused realm of academia by sharing the everyday experiences of disabled academics. Drawing on more than three hundred interviews and survey responses, she demonstrates that individual accommodations―the primary way universities address accessibility is to impede access rather than enhance it. She argues that the pains and injustices encountered by academia’s disabled workers result in their living and working in realities different from nondisabled colleagues: a unique experience of space, time, and being that she theorizes as “crip spacetime.” She explores how disability factors into the exclusionary practices found in universities, with multiple marginalized academics facing the greatest harm. Highlighting the knowledge that disabled academics already possess about how to achieve sustainable forms of access, the author boldly calls for the university to move away from individualized models of accommodation and toward a new system of collective accountability and care.
- Copyright:
- 2024
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 237 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781478030379
- Publisher:
- Duke University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 06/19/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Duke University Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Education
- Submitted By:
- Worth Trust
- Proofread By:
- Worth Trust
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.