Responding to Dysconscious Ableism and Performative Accessibility: Disability Activism in (Neoliberal) Higher Education

• In Event: 67.067 - MTCC Roundtable Session 31
  In Roundtable Session: 67.067-10 - Radical Theoretical and Methodological Responses to Dominant Ideologies in (Inter)National Disability Contexts

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the broad question: Why is there still disability activism after decades of legislation mandating a framework of social justice and human rights for addressing the needs of disabled individuals (Guillaume, 2011). More specifically, why do disabled students feel that disability activism is necessary in contemporary higher education? We approached this question symptomatically, exploring what the continuing need for student activism signifies.

Authors

• Hester Petronella Veitch, Syracuse University

• Alan R. Foley, Syracuse University