Academic Ableism
Disability and Higher Education (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability)
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Academic Ableism
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Narrated by:
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Greg Chun
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By:
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Jay T Dolmage
About this listen
Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education to place disability front and center. For too long, argues Jay Timothy Dolmage, disability has been constructed as the antithesis of higher education, often positioned as a distraction, a drain, a problem to be solved. The ethic of higher education encourages students and teachers alike to accentuate ability, valorize perfection, and stigmatize anything that hints at intellectual, mental, or physical weakness, even as we gesture toward the value of diversity and innovation. Examining everything from campus accommodation processes, to architecture, to popular films about college life, Dolmage argues that disability is central to higher education and that building more inclusive schools allows better education for all.
©2017 Jay Timothy Dolmage (P)2020 University of Michigan PressCritic Reviews
"A comprehensive and detailed critique of ableism in higher education." (Patricia A. Dunn, College English)