Inaccessible Access Book Launch

Panel discussion on the value of disability, neurodiversity, and other 'non-normal' lifeways within anthropology

Panel members:

• Prof Nora Groce, Leonard Cheshire Chair of Disability and Inclusive Development

• Julia Sauma, Goldsmiths

• Julia Modern, Disability London

• Harshadha Balasubramanian (UCL)

• Chaired by Kelly Fagan Robinson

Inaccessible Access ethnographically focuses on the social, environmental, communicative, and epistemological barriers that people with disabilities confront and embody throughout the course of their learning, and in the specific context of higher education institutions and in research. It is presented by a neurodiverse, disabled, and non-cis cohort of authors, all of whom acknowledge a continuum of (in)access specific to their 'non-normal' status. The authors and editors of this book foreground the work that has yet to be done on recognizing the value of nonnormative ways of approaching, being in, and knowing research and higher education, particularly in cases where disablity-centered epistemologies are sidelined in confrontation with institutional norms, even within existing discourses concerning equality and alterity.https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/inaccessible-access/9781978841451/#generate-pdf

A Q&A lunch and roundtable discussion will also be held earlier in the day to celebrate the launch of Inaccessible Access. The event details are here.