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Critical Disability Studies: Looking Back and Forward
Author(s) -
Fine Michelle
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/josi.12344
Subject(s) - ableism , obligation , disability studies , sociology , economic justice , solidarity , conversation , deconstruction (building) , injustice , gender studies , psychoanalysis , epistemology , social psychology , aesthetics , psychology , politics , law , philosophy , political science , ecology , communication , biology
This epilogue is written in three voices. I reflect back, in conversation with Adrienne Asch, on the history of critical disability studies in psychology; then I thank Kathleen R. Bogart and Dana S. Dunn as I review the magnificent set of articles in the volume centering the construct ableism, and finally I write to the next generation of dis/crit scholars on how we might democratize, decolonize, and curate psychological inquiries on ableism and in solidarity with disability justice. Drafted as a love letter to the late Adrienne Asch, the essay considers where we have come, and where we have yet to go, as a field that takes seriously and takes to task the role that professional psychology has played in constructing, and segregating, disabled persons. The essay ends with ethical and epistemological musings about our obligation to animate a radically engaged, intersectional, critical, participatory, and provocative assemblage of research that is at once anti‐ableist and crafted toward disability justice.