A Space at the Table: Disability Studies within Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive Education

Session Submission Type: Alternative Session

Abstract

This conversation will critically examine current framings of disability, anti-racist and anti-oppressive theories in educational discourse, with a particular interest in race, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity. We bring together education researchers whose work call into question the erasure of disability in much anti-racist and anti-oppressive research and policy and ask instead how a fuller range of issues, perspectives, emotions and identities can enter into our conversations about race, oppression and disability issues in education. The conveners will act as provocateurs for each other and the wider conversation, responding to three questions and each other’s comments: In your research and activism, how do you think about categories and theorizing about anti-racist, anti-oppressive theories and disability? What are the contours, shapes, erasures, blind spots, and possibilities?, What questions do you think too often go unasked/ unanswered in contemporary discussions disability and anti-oppressive, or disability and anti-racist thinking, researching and educational activism?

Sub Track

• Other Disciplinary Areas

Individual Presentations

• A Space at the Table: Disability Studies within Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive Education - Lisa Loutzenheiser, University of British Columbia; Nirmala Erevelles, University of Alabama; Tara Affolter, Middlebury College