Alyson Patsavas
Biographic Data
| ID | 5131851 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alyson Patsavas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alyson |
| FAMILY NAME | Patsavas |
| SIGNATURE | PATSAVAS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9352-4249 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Crip Silences, Crip Futurities, Crip Joy
Delores Phillips and Cultural Studies Association’s Crip Cultures/Critical Disability Studies Working Group Co-Host Theodora Danylevich discuss crip silences, crip futurities, and crip joy with authors Alyson Patsavas (University of Illinois, Chicago), Alyson K. Spurgas (Trinity College), and Jess Whatcott (San Diego State University). This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Angela Carter
With Grief and Joy
This second installment of "Crip Pandemic Life: A Tapestry" opens with a reflection on transformative access and its visioning work. We weave this discussion through not only the eight new pieces found within this issue, but also through a reflection on the practices of access and care that enabled the writing, editing, and publication process itself. We conclude with two artifacts: The first is the "Accessible Knowledge Production Manifesto" tha…
Good Doctors, Bad Lovers, and the Desire for Biomedical Authority in The Pain Chronicles and Pain
Crip Pandemic Conversation
'Crip Pandemic Conversation: Textures, Tools, and Recipes,' brings together experts whose scholarship, curation, organizing and artistic work centers crip insights and creativity to reflect on the work that 'Crip Pandemic Life: A Tapestry' undertakes. Margaret Fink, Aimi Hamraie, Mimi Khúc, and Sandie Yi each discuss how the pandemic impacted their work, and they join section co-editors Alyson Patsavas and Theodora Danylevich in discussing the ta…
Introduction
The increasing recognition of critical disability studies as a generative body of work across disciplines is inseparable from a collective need to make sense of ongoing moments of socio-political crisis, emergency, and exceptionality. Theorizations of crip time emergent from lived experiences of disability are critical to the ongoing work of understanding and surviving a chronically debilitating socio-political context. Our current political mome…
The Last Dance
In the summer of 2016, black, disabled, and gay 14-year-old Jerika Bolen announced her decision to die. The public conversation surrounding Bolen's decision, launched through a series of newspaper articles announcing a 'last dance' prom, offers a case-study through which to explore how pain frustrates an analysis of the biopolitical formations that shape both right-to-die discussions and decisions. In doing so, this article offers two interventio…
Mitchell, David with Sharon Snyder, The Biopolitics of Disability. Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiments
Recovering a Cripistemology of Pain
The article weaves together personal experiences of pain with critical readings of cultural discourses to make several key interventions into knowledge produced about/through pain. It brings together analytical processes of cripping and queering to trace the discursive systems that materially produce and structure experiences of pain, lay out a corporeally infused cultural analysis of pain, excavate the felt experiences of cultural discourses, an…
Recovering a Cripistemology of Pain
The article weaves together personal experiences of pain with critical readings of cultural discourses to make several key interventions into knowledge produced about/through pain. It brings together analytical processes of cripping and queering to trace the discursive systems that materially produce and structure experiences of pain, lay out a corporeally infused cultural analysis of pain, excavate the felt experiences of cultural discourses, an…
Recovering a Cripistemology of Pain
The article weaves together personal experiences of pain with critical readings of cultural discourses to make several key interventions into knowledge produced about/through pain. It brings together analytical processes of cripping and queering to trace the discursive systems that materially produce and structure experiences of pain, lay out a corporeally infused cultural analysis of pain, excavate the felt experiences of cultural discourses, an…
Mitchell, David with Sharon Snyder, The Biopolitics of Disability. Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiments
The Last Dance
In the summer of 2016, black, disabled, and gay 14-year-old Jerika Bolen announced her decision to die. The public conversation surrounding Bolen's decision, launched through a series of newspaper articles announcing a 'last dance' prom, offers a case-study through which to explore how pain frustrates an analysis of the biopolitical formations that shape both right-to-die discussions and decisions. In doing so, this article offers two interventio…
Introduction
The increasing recognition of critical disability studies as a generative body of work across disciplines is inseparable from a collective need to make sense of ongoing moments of socio-political crisis, emergency, and exceptionality. Theorizations of crip time emergent from lived experiences of disability are critical to the ongoing work of understanding and surviving a chronically debilitating socio-political context. Our current political mome…
Crip Pandemic Conversation
'Crip Pandemic Conversation: Textures, Tools, and Recipes,' brings together experts whose scholarship, curation, organizing and artistic work centers crip insights and creativity to reflect on the work that 'Crip Pandemic Life: A Tapestry' undertakes. Margaret Fink, Aimi Hamraie, Mimi Khúc, and Sandie Yi each discuss how the pandemic impacted their work, and they join section co-editors Alyson Patsavas and Theodora Danylevich in discussing the ta…
With Grief and Joy
This second installment of "Crip Pandemic Life: A Tapestry" opens with a reflection on transformative access and its visioning work. We weave this discussion through not only the eight new pieces found within this issue, but also through a reflection on the practices of access and care that enabled the writing, editing, and publication process itself. We conclude with two artifacts: The first is the "Accessible Knowledge Production Manifesto" tha…
Good Doctors, Bad Lovers, and the Desire for Biomedical Authority in The Pain Chronicles and Pain
Crip Silences, Crip Futurities, Crip Joy
Delores Phillips and Cultural Studies Association’s Crip Cultures/Critical Disability Studies Working Group Co-Host Theodora Danylevich discuss crip silences, crip futurities, and crip joy with authors Alyson Patsavas (University of Illinois, Chicago), Alyson K. Spurgas (Trinity College), and Jess Whatcott (San Diego State University). This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Angela Carter
Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works)