Crip Time and Radical Care in/as Artful Politics

This article brings together critical disability scholarship and personal narrative, sharing the author’s pandemic story of disruption, caregiving, grief, burnout, cancer, and post-operative fatigue. It offers critical reflection on the limits of the neoliberal academy and possibilities for practici...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: May Chazan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-02-01
Series:Social Sciences
Subjects:
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/2/99
_version_ 1797618118589153280
author May Chazan
author_facet May Chazan
author_sort May Chazan
collection DOAJ
description This article brings together critical disability scholarship and personal narrative, sharing the author’s pandemic story of disruption, caregiving, grief, burnout, cancer, and post-operative fatigue. It offers critical reflection on the limits of the neoliberal academy and possibilities for practicing liberatory politics within it, posing two central questions: What does it mean to crip time and centre care as an arts-based researcher? What might a commitment to honouring crip time based on radical care do for the author and their scholarship, and for others aspiring to conduct reworlding research? This analysis suggests that while committing to “slow scholarship” is a form of resistance to ableist capitalist and colonial pressures within the academy, slowness alone does not sufficiently crip research processes. Crip time, by contrast, involves multiply enfolded temporalities imposed upon (and reclaimed by) many researchers, particularly those living with disabilities and/or chronic illness. The article concludes that researchers can commit to recognizing crip time, valuing it, and caring for those living through it, including themselves, not only/necessarily by slowing down. Indeed, they can also carry out this work by actively imagining the crip futures they are striving to make along any/all trajectories and temporalities. This means simultaneously transforming academic institutions, refusing internalized pressures, reclaiming interdependence, and valuing all care work in whatever time it takes.
first_indexed 2024-03-11T08:08:36Z
format Article
id doaj.art-3a4ca5d8c6c746ab912d35df5a1b2c0b
institution Directory Open Access Journal
issn 2076-0760
language English
last_indexed 2024-03-11T08:08:36Z
publishDate 2023-02-01
publisher MDPI AG
record_format Article
series Social Sciences
spelling doaj.art-3a4ca5d8c6c746ab912d35df5a1b2c0b2023-11-16T23:16:26ZengMDPI AGSocial Sciences2076-07602023-02-011229910.3390/socsci12020099Crip Time and Radical Care in/as Artful PoliticsMay Chazan0Department of Gender & Social Justice, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, ON K9L 0G2, CanadaThis article brings together critical disability scholarship and personal narrative, sharing the author’s pandemic story of disruption, caregiving, grief, burnout, cancer, and post-operative fatigue. It offers critical reflection on the limits of the neoliberal academy and possibilities for practicing liberatory politics within it, posing two central questions: What does it mean to crip time and centre care as an arts-based researcher? What might a commitment to honouring crip time based on radical care do for the author and their scholarship, and for others aspiring to conduct reworlding research? This analysis suggests that while committing to “slow scholarship” is a form of resistance to ableist capitalist and colonial pressures within the academy, slowness alone does not sufficiently crip research processes. Crip time, by contrast, involves multiply enfolded temporalities imposed upon (and reclaimed by) many researchers, particularly those living with disabilities and/or chronic illness. The article concludes that researchers can commit to recognizing crip time, valuing it, and caring for those living through it, including themselves, not only/necessarily by slowing down. Indeed, they can also carry out this work by actively imagining the crip futures they are striving to make along any/all trajectories and temporalities. This means simultaneously transforming academic institutions, refusing internalized pressures, reclaiming interdependence, and valuing all care work in whatever time it takes.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/2/99crip timeradical careslow scholarshipreworldingcrip futuresableism
spellingShingle May Chazan
Crip Time and Radical Care in/as Artful Politics
Social Sciences
crip time
radical care
slow scholarship
reworlding
crip futures
ableism
title Crip Time and Radical Care in/as Artful Politics
title_full Crip Time and Radical Care in/as Artful Politics
title_fullStr Crip Time and Radical Care in/as Artful Politics
title_full_unstemmed Crip Time and Radical Care in/as Artful Politics
title_short Crip Time and Radical Care in/as Artful Politics
title_sort crip time and radical care in as artful politics
topic crip time
radical care
slow scholarship
reworlding
crip futures
ableism
url https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/2/99
work_keys_str_mv AT maychazan criptimeandradicalcareinasartfulpolitics