The making of the activist disabled subject: disability and political activism in English higher education.
Drawing on a Foucauldian theorisation and an in-depth study with eight disabled student activists in England, this paper explores how persistent marginalisation and ableism in higher education has triggered a wave of activism among disabled students, who, just before the advent of the pandemic, had...
| Published in: | Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 173 - 187 |
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