Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance

Professor of English Robert McRuer asks how disability activists, artists and social movements generate change and resist the dominant forms of globalization in an age of austerity, or “crip times.” Broadly attentive to the political and economic shifts of the last several decades, he considers how transnational queer disability theory and culture—activism, blogs, art, photography, literature and performance—provide important and generative sites for both contesting austerity politics and imagining alternatives.