In 1983, UK academic-activist Mike Oliver coined the term ‘social model of disability’. The social model helped spotlight the ableism of the built and material environment, which ensured disablement and sustained inequality. Twenty years later, Catherine Kudlick called for ‘another other’—for historians to embrace disability as a means to interrogate power. This roundtable will reflect the course of the past two decades and more of scholarship.
Outside of the designated parameters of UK Disability History Month (18 November-18 December), this event convenes at an interesting time; one that witnesses an uptick in hate crimes in public spaces against people with disabilities, and the arrival in the world of the novel disabling condition, long covid. Comprised of important and exciting voices in disability and its history, this panel will discuss spaces and their design as key to understanding past experiences, and potential new trajectories for research.
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