TY - BOOK AU - Brown,Nicole AU - Leigh,Jennifer TI - Ableism in academia: theorising experiences of disabilities and chronic illnesses in higher education SN - 9781787355002 AV - LB2333.5 .A35 2020 PY - 2020/// CY - London PB - UCL Press KW - Universities and colleges KW - Employees KW - Legal status, laws, etc KW - Discrimination against people with disabilities KW - College students with disabilities KW - People with disabilities KW - Sociology of disability KW - Discrimination à l'égard des personnes handicapées KW - Handicap KW - Aspect sociologique KW - Electronic books KW - e-books KW - Livres numériques N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface / Nicole Brown and Jennifer Leigh -- Introduction : Theorising ableism in academia / Nicole Brown -- The significance of crashing past gatekeepers of knowledge : Towards full participation of disabled scholars in ableist academic structures / Claudia Gillberg -- I am not disabled : Difference, ethics, critique and refusal of neoliberal academic selves / Francesca Peruzzo -- Disclosure in academia : A sensitive issue / Nicole Brown -- Fibromyalgia and me / Divya Jindal-Snape -- A practical response to ableism in leadership in UK higher education / Nicola Martin -- Autoimmune actions in the ableist academy : A crip response / Alice Andrews -- 'But you don't look disabled' : Non-visible disabilities, disclosure and being an 'insider' in disability research and 'other' in the disability movement and academia / Elisabeth Griffiths -- Invisible disability, unacknowledged diversity / Carla Finesilver, Jennifer Leigh and Nicole Brown -- Imposter / Jennifer Rode -- Internalised ableism : Of the political and the personal / Jennifer Leigh and Nicole Brown -- From the personal to the political : Ableism, activism and academia / Kirstein Rummery -- The violence of technicism : Ableism as humiliation and degrading treatment / Fiona Kumari Campbell -- A little bit extra / El Spaeth -- Conclusioning thoughts : moving forward / Nicole Brown and Jennifer Leigh-- Afterword / Jennifer Leigh and Nicole Brown N2 - Ableism in Academia provides an interdisciplinary outlook on the subject of ableism by theorising and conceptualising what it means to be outside the stereotypical norm as a worker in higher education UR - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv13xprjr ER -