Cynthia Bruce: Activist Disability Scholarship: Knowledge Mobilization for Socially Just Change in University Education
- Event Type
- Seminar/Symposium
- Sponsor
- Department of Sociology
- Virtual
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- Date
- Apr 8, 2022 3:00 pm
- Speaker
- Dr. Cynthia Bruce
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- 63
- Originating Calendar
- Department of Sociology
Abstract: This presentation will explore the role of activist disability scholarship with a focus on how it can support more socially just futures in higher education. Dr. Bruce will draw on her research and experience in post-secondary accessibility to explore the presence of ableism and the marginalization and exclusion it creates for a diversity of disabled students. Self-advocacy as precariousness will be a focal point of her analysis of contemporary accessibility policy frameworks that dis/able, and possibilities for decreasing reliance on it as a strategy for inclusion will be examined.