Disability in a Turbulent Era

Edited by Katherine Runswick-Cole, Chair in Education, School of Education,University of Sheffield, UK, Patty Douglas, Associate Professor of Disability Studies, Faculty of Education, Queen’s University, Canada and Harriet Cameron, Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Education, School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK

‘In an age of intensifying global crises and reactionary politics, disability justice stands at a precipice. This timely volume traces how such turbulence is unevenly borne across disabled and neurodiverse people, and those who support them, urging collective resistance to challenge the ableist and austere conditions shaping the world today.’

• ContentsIntroduction to Disability in a Turbulent Era 1Harriet Cameron, Patty Douglas and Katherine Runswick-ColePART I  CRITICAL DISABILITY STUDIES’ TROUBLES1 Fascism taking flight on a disability runway: analyzingTrump’s disability degradation in turbulent times 11Tanya Titchkosky2 Re-reading shortness matters in turbulent times 24Antonios Ktenidis3 Outside Knowledge: exploring the excluded spacetime ofenergy limiting conditions 37Catherine Hale4 Breathing and crises of respiration in turbulent times 53Suzanne Glover, Julie Ellis and Kirsty Liddiard5 People with learning disabilities getting support to rent theirown homes 63David Abbott, Sam Clark, Becca Cooper, Stephen LeeHodgkins, Eppie Leishman, Andy Pollin, Deborah Quilgarsand Paul Scarrott6 Employment in times of trouble – supported self-employmentas a liberating and transformatory practice 74Keith Bates and Harriet CameronPART II  NEUROQUEER UPHEAVALS7 Neuroqueering disability studies: tracing a few déjà vus 85David Ben Shannon8 Neurodiversity matters: critical perspectives 99Anya Ovcharenko, Rhiannon Lane and Ginny Russell9 Following neurodiversity: trends and tactics along the questfor better worlds 111Margaret F. Gibson10 Turbulence at the margins: adults at the thresholds ofdiagnosis in ‘neurodevelopmental disorders’ 121Harriet Cameron11 Masquerading the landscape: mapping disability geographiesthrough neurodivergent masking 132Angelina VaccaroPART III  DECOLONISING AND INDIGENOUS AGITATIONS12 Southern disability studies in times of crises: an intersectionaland decolonial approach to disability justice 142Xuan Thuy Nguyen13 The Coloniality of Normality: a meeting on a bus 153Elizabeth Arenas Thomas14 ‘Thinking differently’: an interview with Claire Johnstonabout Métis understandings of autism 166Claire Johnston and Patty DouglasPART IV  CARE DISTURBANCES15 What makes someone care worthy? Fighting care-need-basedableism 178Akemi Nishida16 This is (not) fine: exploring the lives of family carers of adultswith learning disabilities in turbulent times 191Katherine Runswick-Cole, Chris Hatton, Martina Smith,Francesca Ribenfors and Sara Ryan17 Collective care in turbulent times: ‘it’s just people holdingeach other up in a house that’s already collapsing’ 202Charlie Grosset18 The matterphorics of dis/political love 213Martina SmithPART V  AFFECT, BODY, MIND, SPACE AND PLACE UNREST19 Everyday matters in turbulent times: reflections on everydayharms and everyday kindnesses to build social justice 223Sally Robinson and Katherine Runswick-Cole20 Thinking with and against: generative tensions bridgingdisability studies and critical rehabilitation studies 234Thomas Abrams, Kelly Fritsch and Gail Teachman21 Worlding Difference in the digital realm: how to create aradically accessible online space in the age of techno-eugenics 242Carla RiceConclusion to Disability in a Turbulent Era 254Harriet Cameron, Patty Douglas and Katherine Runswick-Cole