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Ableism in academic knowledge production

Gender, 2021
The article takes up feminist disability scholars’ request for an integration of disability (theory) into women’s and gender studies and intends to take stock of the status and development of this integration.
Natascha Compes
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Expanding Ableism: Taking down the Ghettoization of Impact of Disability Studies Scholars

Societies, 2012
This paper highlights the utility of an expanded ableism concept beyond how it is used in disability studies; expanding the concept of ableism so it connects with all aspects of societies and making ableism applicable to many academic fields.
Gregor Wolbring
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Review of Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education by Jay T. Dolmage

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2021
No abstract available.
Cara Wieland
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Recalibrating disability towards the term subaltern. The social work of neoliberal-academic-ableism in Danish higher education

Social Work and Society, 2023
This paper explores ways in which disabled academics emerge through the social work of what we call neoliberal-academic-ableism in Danish higher education when disability is recalibrated towards the term subaltern.
Tine Fristrup, Christopher Karanja Odgaard   +1 more
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Ableism and Employment: A Scoping Review of the Literature

Social Sciences
Background: Ableism obstructs employment equity for disabled individuals. However, research lacks a comprehensive understanding of how ableism multidimensionally manifests across job types, disability types, stages of employment, and intersecting ...
Ramona H. Sharma, Renée Asselin, Timothy Stainton, Rachelle Hole   +3 more
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Reimagining Open, Flexible, and Distance Learning in the Age of Academic Ableism

Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning
This editorial interrogates the current state of accessibility within Open, Flexible, and Distance Learning (OFDL), arguing that the sector is grappling with "academic ableism", a structural force that privileges normative body-minds while actively ...
Simon Paul Atkinson
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“Your request is touching”: Marginalization, weakness, and liminality experienced by disabled graduate students in Israel

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2023
Academic neoliberal ableism has considerable negative implications for all disabled academics, but specifically for the marginalization, liminality, and weakness of disabled graduate students.
Nomy Bitman, Mariela Yabo
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Infusing disability equity within rehabilitation education and practice: A qualitative study of lived experiences of ableism, allyship, and healthcare partnership

Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, 2022
BackgroundAddressing issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has become central in implementing inclusive and socially responsible rehabilitation education and clinical practice. Yet, the constructs of disability and d/Deaf identity and culture,
Heather A. Feldner, Heather A. Feldner, Heather A. Feldner, Heather D. Evans, Heather D. Evans, Katherine Chamblin, Lesley M. Ellis, Mark K. Harniss, Mark K. Harniss, Danbi Lee, Danbi Lee, Joanne Woiak   +11 more
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Ableism in academia: where are the disabled and ill academics? [PDF]

Disability & Society, 2018
Recent coverage in relevant Higher Education newspapers and corresponding social media platforms, imply that chronic conditions, illnesses and disabilities are becoming more prominent amongst academics. Changes to funding structures (Thompson and Bekhradnia, 2010), increased globalisation, marketisation and bureaucratisation of Higher Education (Tilak,
Nicole Brown, Jennifer Leigh
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Disability, Race, and Origin Intersectionality in the Doctoral Program: Ableism in Higher Education

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2023
This paper explores the experiences of a doctoral disabled student at a university to examine how ableist structures in graduate programs affect access to higher education and post-degree outcomes.
Theodoto W. Ressa, Scot Danforth
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