Exploring the Politics of Time, Disability, and Collective Accountability in Academe

This webinar took place on February 7, 2025.It was sponsored by the University of Lethbridge; the Office of the Provost, Office of the Vice Provost, Accessibility, Belonging & Community, Faculty of Arts & Science, the Department of Sociology, the University of Lethbridge Faculty Association (ULFA), and the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy. Supporting partner: Canadian Sociological Association's Sociology of Disability Research Cluster. 

 

Guest Speaker: Dr. Margaret Price https://margaretprice.wordpress.com

Drawing upon her award-winning book Mad at School, and the newly released Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life, Dr. Margaret Price argues for a turn toward collective accountability in order to make academe more accessible for all marginalized persons. Rejecting individual accommodation as a means to access, Dr. Price draws upon established work in Black Feminist Studies and disability studies to argue for the value of collectivity and gathering. Her presentation draws upon a survey and interview study conducted with more than 300 disabled faculty and staff members. In this talk, Dr. Price focuses particularly on the politics of time, presenting her concept of the “accommodations loop” to explain why individual accommodations are not simply inefficient, but systemically harmful. She closes with a discussion of accountability and gathering in order to point the way toward more sustainable and restorative ways of moving together in academic spacetimes.

 

Moderators: Dr. Suzanne Lenon and Dr. Athena Elafros

 

Interpreting provided by: Deaf & Hear Alberta https://deafandhearalberta.ca

 

CART captioning provided by: Canadian Hearing Services https://www.chs.ca

 

Captions and Transcription provided by: Academic Audio

Transcription https://academicaudiotranscription.com/

 

Transcript of the webinar: Margaret Price Webinar Transcript February 7, 2025.docx