Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education
Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education
by Jay T. Dolmage
University of Michigan Press, 2017
ISBNs
Cloth: 978-0-472-07371-9
Paper: 978-0-472-05371-1
eISBN: 978-0-472-90072-5 (OA)
eISBN: 978-0-472-12341-4 (standard)
About the Book
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.
About the Author
Jay Timothy Dolmage is Associate Professor of English at the University of Waterloo.
Reviews
“For those new to the field of Disability Studies, Dolmage provides clear, authoritative definitions of terms and the opportunity to analyze, critically, what students know best and need tools to think about, their own spaces and roles. For those who are old hats, this book is game-changing.”
— Susan Schweik, University of California, Berkeley
— -— Susan Schweik, University of California, Berkeley
“Academic Ableism is a landmark book for higher education. Using disability as the frame, it is the first and only of its kind to take on structural ableism in the academy.”
—Brenda Brueggemann, University of Connecticut
— -—Brenda Brueggemann, University of Connecticut
Tags
Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability, Education (Higher), Higher Education, Sociology of disability, Educational Psychology, Discrimination in higher education, Discrimination against people with disabilities, College students with disabilities, College buildings, Academic Ableism, Barrier-free design, Health & Fitness, Disability, Semiotics & Theory, Education, Literary Criticism, Social Science
Open Access Information
Label: Arts Research Office at the University of Waterloo
License: CC BY-NC-ND
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