Collision and Collusion: Artists, Academics, and Activists in Dialogue with the University of California and Critical Disability Studies

This essay recounts two interconnected collaborative disability studies projects. Because of every person’s complex relationship to their own embodiment and that of others, disability beckons us to a realm beyond abstraction, even as the field becomes ever more theoretical. We describe how disabilit...

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Main Authors:	Catherine Kudlick, Susan Schweik
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	The Ohio State University Libraries 2014-03-01
Series:	Disability Studies Quarterly
Subjects:	access arts audio description critical disability studies collaboration curation design distance learning
Online Access:	http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/4251

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spelling	doaj-5cf512ff2a0444aabc4f0151858cecff2020-11-24T21:32:25ZengThe Ohio State University LibrariesDisability Studies Quarterly1041-57182159-83712014-03-0134210.18061/dsq.v34i2.42513043Collision and Collusion: Artists, Academics, and Activists in Dialogue with the University of California and Critical Disability StudiesCatherine Kudlick0Susan Schweik1Professor of History and Director, Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability, San Francisco State UniversityProfessor of English, Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities, University of California, BerkeleyThis essay recounts two interconnected collaborative disability studies projects. Because of every person’s complex relationship to their own embodiment and that of others, disability beckons us to a realm beyond abstraction, even as the field becomes ever more theoretical. We describe how disability shaped what we did and how we did it; description is a key term here. Conversations such as the ones we had in 2010 and 2012 pave the way for new ideas by offering concrete examples of disability as a generative force. Through risk taking and creative practice, the best academics and artists challenge the status quo, maybe serving as translators for people not in the habit of giving disability or disabled people much thought. The more people come to associate disability with positive ideas, the more we can imagine changing those hardwired negative, pitying forces that dominate approaches to policy, practices, and encounters in daily life. Keywords: access, arts, audio description, critical disability studies, collaboration, curation, design, distance learning.http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/4251accessartsaudio descriptioncritical disability studiescollaborationcurationdesigndistance learning
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title	Collision and Collusion: Artists, Academics, and Activists in Dialogue with the University of California and Critical Disability Studies
title_short	Collision and Collusion: Artists, Academics, and Activists in Dialogue with the University of California and Critical Disability Studies
title_full	Collision and Collusion: Artists, Academics, and Activists in Dialogue with the University of California and Critical Disability Studies
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series	Disability Studies Quarterly
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publishDate	2014-03-01
description	This essay recounts two interconnected collaborative disability studies projects. Because of every person’s complex relationship to their own embodiment and that of others, disability beckons us to a realm beyond abstraction, even as the field becomes ever more theoretical. We describe how disability shaped what we did and how we did it; description is a key term here. Conversations such as the ones we had in 2010 and 2012 pave the way for new ideas by offering concrete examples of disability as a generative force. Through risk taking and creative practice, the best academics and artists challenge the status quo, maybe serving as translators for people not in the habit of giving disability or disabled people much thought. The more people come to associate disability with positive ideas, the more we can imagine changing those hardwired negative, pitying forces that dominate approaches to policy, practices, and encounters in daily life. Keywords: access, arts, audio description, critical disability studies, collaboration, curation, design, distance learning.
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Collision and Collusion: Artists, Academics, and Activists in Dialogue with the University of California and Critical Disability Studies

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