| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 245 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Universities and colleges -- Employees -- Legal status, laws, etc
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Discrimination against people with disabilities.
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College students with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc
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People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Sociology of disability.
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College students with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Discrimination against people with disabilities
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People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Sociology of disability
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Universities and colleges -- Employees -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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| Genre/Form |
e-books.
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Livres numériques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brown, Nicole, editor
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Leigh, Jennifer, editor
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| ISBN |
9781787355002 |
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1787355004 |
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9781787354975 |
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1787354970 |
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9781787355019 |
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1787355012 |
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