Gosh what a mouthfull, nonetheless that sounds very interesting, indeed I do not know about mainstream Europe but I do suspect that the "academy" is part of a subtle agenda for the institutionalisation if not the production of disability (the latter belonging most properly it seems to the state)
Lots of thoughts on this one.
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> Call for Participation: Roundtable Session
> Playing the disability “cardâ€: Disability, Neoliberalism and The Academy
> Part of theme 8: ‘Universities/geography in Crisis’ at the Sixth International
> Conference of Critical Geography, Frankfurt, Germany, 16-20 August 2011
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> This Roundtable session aims to bring together researchers concerned with
> institutionalized ableism and the construction and reproduction of disability within the
> academy. Due to the activism of disabled people, universities are increasingly aware of
> their legal duty to accommodate students and staff with disability. Nevertheless, some
> argue that the rhetoric of rights, embedded in neoliberalism, holds out the promise of
> equalization at the same time as it reinscribes negative ontologies (of disability)
> thereby reproducing both difference and discrimination. The result is “the illusion of
> inclusion†(Campbell, 2004, p. 119, 126). Some pressing questions for roundtable
> participants are: How can we break out of this double bind? Amidst the din of
> competing professional discourses such as medicine, law and educational psychology
> in the construction, governance and surveillance of disability, where are there spaces
> for resistance and contestation? At a practical, embodied level, how do we negotiate the
> everyday pragmatics and politics of disability? Contributions are encouraged from a
> wide variety of theoretical perspectives including (but not limited to): Crip Theory,
> Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, Post Colonial Theory, and Critical Cultural Theory.
> Interlocking and intersectional analyses are especially encouraged.
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