The Disability Experience in the Contemporary World

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Disability studies is a field of study which offers a critique of commonly held assumptions regarding oppressive binaries such as normal/abnormal, disabled/non-disabled, rational/irrational, human/subaltern, white/racialized, civilized/savage - binaries that are justified by claiming that they are rooted in irrefutable "scientific" fact. This course aims at fostering a critical conversation among race, class, gender and sexuality studies, transnationalism (or global studies) and disability studies. Offered Alternate Years.