What’s disability got to do with it?”: Educational studies and its intersectionalities

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

This presentation seeks to center disability as a critical analytic that frames educational possibilities that challenge the everyday workings of the settler colonial state that is anti-black, anti-Indigenous, anti-immigrant, anti-feminist, anti-queer, anti-poor, and also anti-disability. Historically, disability continues to be an outlier in educational studies, often regarded as the social category to avoid rather than engage, or one only appropriate to discussions of inclusion and special education. In this presentation authors break with this tradition and instead do more than respond to current policy and political realities to critically engage disability at the intersections of race, immigration/refugee status, trauma, gender, and class.

Sub Track

• American Educational Studies Association

Chair

• Lisa Loutzenheiser, University of British Columbia

Discussant

• Nirmala Erevelles, University of Alabama

Individual Presentations

• A brief contextualizing of intersectionalities and critical disability studies - Lisa Loutzenheiser, University of British Columbia

• The problem isn’t yourself overcoming, it’s other people overcoming you”: A Decolonizing Global Mental Health DSE Curricular Cripstemology - David Hernandez-Saca, University of Northern Iowa; Laurie Gutmann Kahn, Moravian College

• Haunted Trauma Narratives of inclusion, race, and disability in a school community - Irene Yoon, University of Utah

• Same as it ever was: The nexus of race, ability, and place - Julia Maxine White, Syracuse University