The course centres on daily lived experiences of marginalisation on the basis of disability. Disability is an umbrella term that may include but is not limited to mobility, visual or hearing impairments, acute and chronic diagnoses, chronic fatigue and burn-out, neurodivergence/neuroqueerness, and cripping affects. It discusses relevant experiences in connection to structural ableism, a system of discrimination of individuals and populations that do not embody the idea of compulsory able-bodiedness, specifically prolific in the Western world.
The course centres on daily lived experiences of marginalisation on the basis of disability. Disability is an umbrella term that may include but is not limited to mobility, visual or hearing impairments, acute and chronic diagnoses, chronic fatigue and burn-out, neurodivergence/neuroqueerness, and cripping affects. It discusses relevant experiences in connection to structural ableism, a system of discrimination of individuals and populations that do not embody the idea of compulsory able-bodiedness, specifically prolific in the Western world.
The course introduces its participants to critical disability studies. It centres on feminist perspectives and begins from the premise that disability is not an individual medicalised problem. Instead, disability refers to an embodied political and cultural phenomenon that needs to be addressed with complex social change. The course discusses theoretical and methodological tools for analysing ableist structures. Participants will have an opportunity to rehearse how to challenge and disrupt ableism in specific contexts.
Please see more information in the Study Guide.
At the end of the course, participants will have knowledge of the key theoretical approaches to various experiences of disability and will be able to operate with the critical terminology in the field.
They will be equipped to compare and contrast mainstream and critical disability studies as well as medical, social and political/relational approaches to disabilities.
They will be equipped to analyse disability in the intersection with other categories of social exclusion and minoritarian experiences.
No prior knowledge is required. Background in gender studies, cultural studies, and feminist theory is a benefit.
All the readings, video and audio materials is available on Moodle.
Lectures via Zoom, self-study week, discussions, written assignment.
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