Growing Disability Studies: Politics of Access, Politics of Collaboration

2014

Michelle Jarman
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307-766-5060

Special journal issue introduction: How does onehow do wegrow a field? In developing this special issue, we invited contributors to share answers to that question; we asked them, in other words, to reflect upon, to grapple with, and to imagine possible futures of the field. 1 As their responses attest, considering where and how the field may grow requires wrestling with the past, acknowledging the gaps, tensions, and possibilities of the present, and articulating critical questions for future field development. Part of that work is an acknowledgement that the field is, in fact, already growing: in recent years we have witnessed the development of new programs, an increased demand for courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, an expansion in online offerings, a rapid proliferation of disability studies publications, and wider recognition of disability studies as a field.

disability studies, collaboration, access

Peer-reviewed publications in scholarly journals submitted

Consumers/Families, Professionals, Students

Visual Format or Large Print, Electronic (disc, CD, 508 compliant web posting)

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