Crip spacetime : access, failure, and accountability in academic life / Margaret Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, Margaret, 1969- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disability studies.

People with disabilities in higher education--United States.

People with disabilities in higher education.

People with disabilities--Education (Higher)--United States.

People with disabilities.

People with disabilities--Employment--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 227 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : London : Duke University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Drawing on survey and interview data with more than three hundred disabled employees in higher education, Crip Spacetime demonstrates that individual accommodations-the dominant system of achieving access in most Western academic colleges and universities-actually impedes access rather than enhancing it. This book is the story of how disability accommodation becomes destructive. It is also the story of what it means to be disabled as a US academic in this moment, and the paradoxical hyper- and in-visibility that entails. The "Crip spacetime" of the title refers to the different realities occupied by disabled individuals that change the material-discursive relationships to the university. Margaret Price charts the ways in which efforts to broaden access increase inequity, and theorizes that the ideological focus on individual disabled bodies ignores the relations, systems, objects and discourses the structure disability. The book draws on crip-of-color critique, critical disability studies, and material rhetorics to highlight the knowledge that disabled academics already possess about how they perceive and occupy academic time and space differently-spaces constituted by harm, time eaten up in accommodations loops-and propose modes of collective accountability to improve future conditions."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Crip spacetime

1. Space: the impossibility of compromise

2. Time harms: navigating the accomodations loop

3. The cost of access: why didn't you just ask?

4. Accompaniment: uncanny entanglements of bodyminds, embodied technologies, and objects

Conclusion. Collective accountability and gathering.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Price, Margaret, 1969- Crip spacetime.

ISBN:

9781478059370

1478059370

9781478093992

1478093994

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.