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Ableism in academia : [electronic book] : theorising experiences of disabilities and chronic illnesses in higher education /

Contributor(s): Brown, Nicole [editor.] | Leigh, Jennifer [editor.].
Publisher: London : UCL Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 245 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781787355002.Subject(s): Universities and colleges -- Employees -- Legal status, laws, etc | Discrimination against people with disabilities | College students with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc | People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc | Sociology of disability | Graduate students | ResearchDDC classification: 378.12087 Online resources: Access ebook here
Contents:
Preface / Nicole Brown and Jennifer Leigh -- Introduction : Theorising ableism in academia / Nicole Brown -- The significance of crashing past gatekeepers of knowledge : Towards full participation of disabled scholars in ableist academic structures / Claudia Gillberg -- I am not disabled : Difference, ethics, critique and refusal of neoliberal academic selves / Francesca Peruzzo -- Disclosure in academia : A sensitive issue / Nicole Brown -- Fibromyalgia and me / Divya Jindal-Snape -- A practical response to ableism in leadership in UK higher education / Nicola Martin -- Autoimmune actions in the ableist academy : A crip response / Alice Andrews -- 'But you don't look disabled' : Non-visible disabilities, disclosure and being an 'insider' in disability research and 'other' in the disability movement and academia / Elisabeth Griffiths -- Invisible disability, unacknowledged diversity / Carla Finesilver, Jennifer Leigh and Nicole Brown -- Imposter / Jennifer Rode -- Internalised ableism : Of the political and the personal / Jennifer Leigh and Nicole Brown -- From the personal to the political : Ableism, activism and academia / Kirstein Rummery -- The violence of technicism : Ableism as humiliation and degrading treatment / Fiona Kumari Campbell -- A little bit extra / El Spaeth -- Conclusioning thoughts : moving forward / Nicole Brown and Jennifer Leigh-- Afterword / Jennifer Leigh and Nicole Brown.
Summary: Ableism in Academia provides an interdisciplinary outlook on the subject of ableism by theorising and conceptualising what it means to be outside the stereotypical norm as a worker in higher education.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Nicole Brown and Jennifer Leigh -- Introduction : Theorising ableism in academia / Nicole Brown -- The significance of crashing past gatekeepers of knowledge : Towards full participation of disabled scholars in ableist academic structures / Claudia Gillberg -- I am not disabled : Difference, ethics, critique and refusal of neoliberal academic selves / Francesca Peruzzo -- Disclosure in academia : A sensitive issue / Nicole Brown -- Fibromyalgia and me / Divya Jindal-Snape -- A practical response to ableism in leadership in UK higher education / Nicola Martin -- Autoimmune actions in the ableist academy : A crip response / Alice Andrews -- 'But you don't look disabled' : Non-visible disabilities, disclosure and being an 'insider' in disability research and 'other' in the disability movement and academia / Elisabeth Griffiths -- Invisible disability, unacknowledged diversity / Carla Finesilver, Jennifer Leigh and Nicole Brown -- Imposter / Jennifer Rode -- Internalised ableism : Of the political and the personal / Jennifer Leigh and Nicole Brown -- From the personal to the political : Ableism, activism and academia / Kirstein Rummery -- The violence of technicism : Ableism as humiliation and degrading treatment / Fiona Kumari Campbell -- A little bit extra / El Spaeth -- Conclusioning thoughts : moving forward / Nicole Brown and Jennifer Leigh-- Afterword / Jennifer Leigh and Nicole Brown.

Ableism in Academia provides an interdisciplinary outlook on the subject of ableism by theorising and conceptualising what it means to be outside the stereotypical norm as a worker in higher education.

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