Abstract
No Future for Academic Crips attempts to situate crip theory, critical disability studies, and communication theory squarely in the context of academia, problematizing the constraints placed on autistic identity by the demands of a graduate education. Utilizing autoethnographic vignettes along with theoretical writings regarding the creation and consolidation of crip identity, this thesis theorizes what a “neuroqueer future” looks like for academics. Six vignettes are presented to demonstrate strategies for survival employed in academic spaces, followed by analysis contextualizing and criticizing those strategies. Finally, implications for neuroqueer futurity and identity are discussed.
Advisor
Justin J. Rudnick
Committee Member
Sachi Sekimoto
Committee Member
Diana Joseph
Date of Degree
2021
Language
english
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Master of Arts (MA)
Program of Study
Communication Studies
College
Arts and Humanities
Recommended Citation
Adams, A. (2021). No future for academic crips: An autoethnographic crippling of academic futurity [Master’s thesis, Minnesota State University, Mankato]. Cornerstone: A Collection of Scholarly and Creative Works for Minnesota State University, Mankato. https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/etds/1172
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