Kurssin kuvaus

The course discusses theoretical approaches and methodological tools for analysing structural ableism. It frames structural ableism as a system of discrimination of individuals, their groups, populations and environments that do not embody the idea of able-bodiedness or efficiency, specifically prolific in the Western world. The course centres on diverse daily lived experiences of structural marginalisation based on disability.

The course begins from the premise that disability is not an individual exclusively medicalised problem but an embodied political and cultural phenomenon that needs to be addressed with complex social change. Disability is an umbrella term that embraces but is not limited to mobility, visual or hearing impairments, acute and chronic diagnoses, chronic fatigue, burn-out, neurodivergence, cripping affects and other queercrip bodily experiences. Notably, the course discusses the limitations of the notion of “disability” and ventures “crip” or “queecrip” as community-proposed alternatives. The course invites its participants to examine the interventions of feminist approaches, crip theory and disability justice movement in the broader field of disability studies. It begins by outlining approaches and subfields that comprise contemporary disability studies. Learning outcomes By completion of the course, participants will have knowledge of and practical experience in using the terminology with which feminist disability studies and crip scholarship/theory currently operate. Participants will be introduced to and trained to evaluate the implications of the core models of disability, including medical, social and political/relational approaches to disabilities.

Participants will be equipped to analyse disability, crip experiences, and cripping affects in the intersection with other categories of marginalisation and oppression. Participants will be able to navigate and synthesise theoretical approaches to various experiences of disability they wish to analyse. Participants will be introduced and will be invited to practice the interventions that fragmentary crip writing and other crip writerly methods do in normative research writing practices.