Critical Disability Studies Cluster
This Cluster gives everyone a space to socialise and humanise disability studies and think otherwise about dominant, white, hetero-normative framings of what it means to be human.
What is central to the Cluster is queer, feminist, disability and postcolonial studies to reimagine space, time, practices, and beliefs in truly inclusive and meaningful ways. The Cluster engages with disability as a social, cultural, and political phenomenon, challenging dominant medicalized and deficit-based perspectives. The Cluster centres the lived experiences, voices, and agency of marginalised humans, while critically examining how ableism operates across institutions, policies, and everyday life. Drawing on intersectional and justice-oriented frameworks, the Cluster will promote transformative thinking and practice that reimagines access, inclusion, and equity in more radical and empowering ways. And, added bonus, Professor Goodley has kindly offered to host iHuman/Education bespoke bi-monthly meetings online for ESRC, Leverhulme, and Wellcome funding.
CLUSTER LEAD: Dr. Lauren White (l.e.white@sheffield.ac.uk)