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Rethinking Disability Inclusion in Academic Knowledge Creation
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Edited by:
Kelly Fagan Robinson
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With contributions by:
Kelly Fagan Robinson
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Afterword by:
Michele Friedner
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Illustrator:
Indigo Ayling
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English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
Inaccessible Access ethnographically addresses barriers to inclusion within knowledge-making. It focuses on the social, environmental, communicative, and epistemological barriers that people with disabilities confront and embody throughout the course of their learning and living and in the specific context of their higher education institutions and in research. It is presented by a neurodiverse, disabled, and non-cis cohort of authors, all of whom acknowledge a continuum of (in)access that is available to each contributor contingent on their inherent intersectionalities and alterities. The authors and editors of this book foreground the work that has yet to be done on recognizing the value of nonnormative ways of approaching, being in, and knowing research and higher education, particularly in cases where disablity-centered epistemologies are sidelined in confrontation with institutional norms, even within existing discourses concerning equality and alterity.
Author / Editor information
KELLY FAGAN ROBINSON is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow and an affiliate lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.
MARK T. CAREW is an assistant professor at the International Centre for Evidence in Disability at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a coauthor of Disability and Sexual Health: A Critical Exploration of Key Issues and coeditor of Physical Disability and Sexuality: Stories from South Africa.
NORA ELLEN GROCE is the Leonard Cheshire Chair of Disability and Inclusive Development at University College London. She is the author of Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard and a coauthor of Accessible Connecticut: A Guide to Recreation for Children with Disabilities and Their Families.
MARK T. CAREW is an assistant professor at the International Centre for Evidence in Disability at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a coauthor of Disability and Sexual Health: A Critical Exploration of Key Issues and coeditor of Physical Disability and Sexuality: Stories from South Africa.
NORA ELLEN GROCE is the Leonard Cheshire Chair of Disability and Inclusive Development at University College London. She is the author of Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard and a coauthor of Accessible Connecticut: A Guide to Recreation for Children with Disabilities and Their Families.
Reviews
"With ethnographic detail and theoretical rigor, Inaccessible Access makes an essential contribution to critical access studies, showing that disability inclusion, equity, and justice are much more complicated than legal regimes make them out to be. A must-read for students, faculty, and administrators in higher education."— Aimi Hamraie, author of Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability
"As universities charge their offices of disability services with the challenge of advising instructors on reasonable educational accommodations, too often disabled students experience a yawning gap between what is provided and what they actually need. Inaccessible Access thoughtfully and wisely enters into that gap, or those many gaps, to explore, document, and problematize the complex terrain. This book launches a much-needed conversation about how universities can better accept, value, and support disabled students."— Scot Danforth, editor of Becoming a Great Inclusive Educator
"This type of research-based literature may contribute to a significant strengthening of critical social work and disability research in modern society. . . . The book’s great merits are the language used in the field of disability and the critical perspectives (lived experience). . . . The book provides valuable scientific and practical knowledge about the conditions and opportunities for developing universities into inclusive workplaces for all."— European Journal of Social Security
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eBook published on:
November 15, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9781978841482
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206
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8 color and 3 B-W images
eBook ISBN:
9781978841482
Keywords for this book
academia; disability; inclusion; higher education; access; education; mental health; neurodiverse
Audience(s) for this book
College/higher education;
