In Crip Spacetime, Margaret Price intervenes in the competitive, productivity-focused realm of academia by sharing the everyday experiences of disabled academics. Drawing on more than three hundred interviews and survey responses, Price demonstrates that individual accommodations—the primary way universities address accessibility—actually impede access rather than enhance it. She argues that the pains and injustices encountered by academia’s disabled workers result in their living and working in realities different from nondisabled colleagues: a unique experience of space, time, and being that Price theorizes as “crip spacetime.” She explores how disability factors into the exclusionary practices found in universities, with multiply marginalized academics facing the greatest harms. Highlighting the knowledge that disabled academics already possess about how to achieve sustainable forms of access, Price boldly calls for the university to move away from individualized models of accommodation and toward a new system of collective accountability and care.

Margaret Price is Associate Professor of English at the Ohio State University and author of Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life.

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Crip Spacetime  1
1. Space: The Impossibility of Compromise  41
2. Time Harms: Navigating the Accommodations Loop  73
3. The Cost of Access: Why Didn’t You Just Ask?  104
4. Accompaniment: Uncanny Entanglements of Bodyminds, Embodied Technologies, and Objects  134
Conclusion. Collective Accountability and Gathering  169
Appendix 1. Markup Conventions for Interview Quotations  179
Appendix 2. Interviewees’ Pseudonyms and Descriptions  180
Appendix 3. Coding Details  185
Notes  189
References  197
Index  221