Authors | |
Publisher | Ingram Publisher Services UK- Academic |
Year | 05/10/2020 |
Edition | First |
Version | eBook: Reflowable eTextbook (ePub) |
Language | English |
ISBN | 9781787355002 |
Categories | Disability: social aspects |
Ableism in Academia provides an interdisciplinary outlook on ableism that is currently missing. Through reporting research data and exploring personal experiences, the contributors theorise and conceptualise what it means to be/work outside the stereotypical norm. The volume brings together a range of perspectives, including feminism, post-structuralism, crip theory and disability theory, and draws on the width and breadth of a number of related disciplines. Contributors use technicism, leadership, social justice theories and theories of embodiment to raise awareness and increase understanding of the marginalised – that is, those academics who are not perfect. These theories are placed in the context of neoliberal academia, which is distant from the privileged and romanticised versions that exist in the public and internalised imaginations of academics, and used to interrogate aspects of identity, aspects of how disability is performed, and to argue that ableism is not just a disability issue.
This timely collection
of chapters will be of interest to researchers in Disability Studies, Higher Education
Studies and Sociology, and to those researching the relationship between theory
and personal experience across the Social Sciences.
Praise for Ableism in Academia
'Personal and reflective ...All the authors artfully weaved their own experiences with disability into their academic writing in a way that I felt elevated this scholarly collection. this book still left me hopeful. “Collections like this one are necessary to bring into the public consciousness the matters of those who are marginalized” writes Brown in the introduction. I fully agree, and have no doubt this book will contribute to the growing conversation.'
Nature Chemistry
'An enriching source of knowledge regarding the personal experiences and attempts to theoretically conceptualise ableism in academia.'
Alter, European Journal of Disability Research
Ableism in Academia