Crippin’ educational studies at the intersections

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

In a political context where alt-right dogmas are in ascendancy. In this state of heightened precarity, those subjectivities deemed as being “at risk” to the “normal” populations are often “quarantined” via segregation. It is as witness to precarity, as well as in resistance to it, that this panel seeks to highlight educative settings as spaces of contestation in guaranteeing opportunities for all students to be nurtured in academically, socially, and culturally appropriate ways. This panel seeks to center disability and intersectionalities as critical analytics that frames educational possibilities that challenge the everyday understandings of disability, queer, poor, transness, and Indigenous as lacking by definition. We wish to explore disciplinary transformations or re-formations that occur when disability is conceptualized not as a pathology to be “cured” or a problem for schools to “manage and solve”, but rather as a radical social identity that embodies generative possibility.

Sub Track

• American Educational Studies Association

Chair

• Nirmala Erevelles, University of Alabama

Discussant

• Lisa Loutzenheiser, University of British Columbia

Individual Presentations

• Contextualizing the nexus intersectionality and critical disability studies - Nirmala Erevelles, University of Alabama

• Racism and ableism in early behaviorism’s “Quiet Revolution”: Control society as curriculum - Robin Roscigno, Rutgers University

• Special education as neoliberal property: The racecraft, biopolitics, and immunization of disability - Benjamin Kearl, Purdue University Fort Wayne

• Black feminist thought, unruliness and the radical transformation of postsecondary educational spaces - lalenja harrington, UNCG

• Cripping Human Rights Education with Disability Studies - Maya Steinborn, Canyon Springs High School; Emily Nussbaum, independent scholar