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"In Crip Spacetime, Margaret Price intervenes in the competitive, productivity-focused realm of academia by sharing the everyday experiences of disabled academics. Drawing on more than 300 interviews and survey responses, Price demonstrates that individual accommodations-the primary ways universities address accessibility-actually impede access rather than enhancing it. She argues that the pains and injustices encountered by academia's disabled workers result in them living and working in different realities than nondisabled colleagues: a unique experience of space, time, and being that Price theorizes as ""crip spacetime."" She explores how disability factors into the exclusionary practices found in universities, with multiply minoritized academics facing the greatest harms. Highlighting the knowledge that disabled academics already possess about how to achieve sustainable forms of access, Price boldly calls for the university to move away from individualized models of accommodation and toward a new system of collective accountability and care."

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9781478026136

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“Crip Spacetime is a very important book not only for disability studies, gender studies, and race studies but also for anyone whose project is to think deeply about how the reproduction of institutions as being for some and not for others is a form of institutional violence. Margaret Price shows that we need collective accountability to do more than get more disabled people through the door, teaching us that if we listened to disabled academics, we would learn how to build better universities.” -- Sara Ahmed, author of * Complaint! * “In this highly anticipated analysis of disabled academics’ experiences, Margaret Price weaves critical disability theory with qualitative research to analyze the material and discursive textures of accessibility. This book will be essential reading for scholars, teachers, and students seeking to understand disabled lifeworlds in the modern university.” -- Aimi Hamraie, author of * Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability *

“Crip Spacetime is a very important book not only for disability studies, gender studies, and race studies, but for anyone whose project is to think deeply about how the reproduction of institutions as being for some and not for others is a form of institutional violence. Margaret Price shows that we need collective accountability to do more than get more disabled people through the door, teaching us that if we listened to disabled academics we would learn how to build better universities.” -- Sara Ahmed, author of * Complaint! *

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Margaret Price is Associate Professor of English at the Ohio State University and author of Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life.

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