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Title Ableism in academia : theorising experiences of disabilities and chronic illnesses in higher education / edited by Nicole Brown and Jennifer Leigh.

Publication Info. London : UCL Press, 2020.
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 245 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Subject 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.
Discrimination à l'égard des personnes handicapées.
Handicap -- Aspect sociologique.
College students with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Discrimination against people with disabilities
People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Sociology of disability
Universities and colleges -- Employees -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Genre/Form e-books.
Livres numériques.
Added Author Brown, Nicole, editor.
Leigh, Jennifer, editor.
Other Form: Print version: 1787354997 9781787354999 (OCoLC)1153485876
ISBN 9781787355002 (electronic bk.)
1787355004 (electronic bk.)
9781787354975 (electronic bk.)
1787354970 (electronic bk.)
9781787355019 (Kindle ebook)
1787355012
1787354997
9781787354999
9781787354982
Standard No. AU@ 000068026087
AU@ 000068161277
AU@ 000068172164
UKMGB 019888416

 
    
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