Lived experiences of ableism in academia : strategies for inclusion in higher education /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher Education
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- List of figures and tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Being 'different' in academia
- Introduction
- Higher education in the 21st century
- The body enters
- Experiences of ableism in academia
- Chapter overviews
- Note
- References
- Part I Ways of knowing
- 1 A leg to stand on: irony, autoethnography and ableism in the academy
- Introduction
- What is autoethnography?
- Irony as a lens
- Neoliberalist logics
- Autoethnography as intervention
- References
- 2 "There's no place for emotions in academia": experiences of the neoliberal academy as a disabled scholar
- The neoliberal academy
- The emotional toll of being a disabled academic
- What the future holds
- References
- 3 Embodiment and authenticity: how embodied research might shed light on experiences of disability and chronic illness
- Introduction
- Embodiment
- Embodiment and knowledge production
- Embodied autoethnography
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 4 What's in a word? Rephrasing and reframing disability
- Introduction
- A personal perspective
- Societal and historical perspectives
- The construction of media influences
- The language we use
- Reflecting on practice and understanding needs
- Conclusion
- Intermezzo
- References
- Part II Lived experiences
- 5 Colour blindness in academia: the challenges of an invisible impairment
- Introduction
- Living with colour blindness
- Colour blindness in academic research
- Conclusion
- Reflective questions
- Recommendations
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- References
- 6 Stammering in academia: voice in the management of self and others
- Introduction
- Scene 1: The interview
- What is stammering?
- Academic life as a person who stammers
- Scene 2: The presentation
- Reflective questions
- Recommendations
- Resources
- Acknowledgements
- References
- 7 Losing my voice (physically and metaphorically)
- Introduction
- Losing my voice
- Returning to work
- Developing my voice
- Conclusion
- Reflective questions
- Recommendations
- References
- 8 Deafness and hearing loss in higher education
- Introduction
- Hearing impaired, deaf or Deaf?
- What it means to (not) hear in the academy
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Reflective questions
- Recommendations
- Notes
- References
- 9 Living with collagenous colitis as a busy academic: chronic illness and the intersection of age and gender inequality
- Introduction
- Defining the disease
- Telling my story
- Impacting academic life
- Reflective questions
- Recommendations
- References
- 10 Three cheers for Access to Work partnership: two cheers for Two Ticks and one question about a university-wide self-disclosu
- Introduction
- Me and Stan
- The theory of Two Ticks