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I thought that was clear, but perhaps it was not sufficiently so. (Some of the replies are mixing two questions, one about "crip theory", and another about "crip" as a one-word colloquial term. I am not inquiring about the latter. So, keeping those two questions apart, I doubt if non-academics on the street are sending messages to the universities saying to use a new term "crip theory".) The question IS about -- when an academic decides what to call his or her work, and makes a decision of calling it "disability studies" or to use "crip theory" instead. On what basis do people choose one or the other? Is something different meant? Second application: If an educational event is labelled with the first term or the second, is it inviting the same set of people? Or does an event label of "crip theory" suggest that one is aiming for a smaller, more select, more "cutting edge" or whatever, group? PS: The word "hegemony" has no connection at all to this inquiry, nor does the concept of supporting academic elitism. Great riffs, wrong target. Jim ________________End of message______________________ Archives and tools for the Disability-Research Discussion List are now located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page.