Brad Bierdz
Biographic Data
| ID | 831503 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brad Bierdz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brad |
| FAMILY NAME | Bierdz |
| SIGNATURE | BIERDZ B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Southern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4860-3962 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Refusals as Access-Otherwise
This article reframes student refusal not as a geography of disciplinary coercion but asaccess-otherwise: livable, consent-based ways of appearing, thinking, and learning. Drawing oncrip theory (compulsory able-bodymindedness, crip time, disability justice) and anarchic theory(destituent power, prefiguration, opacity), I read four classroom vignettes to grapple withrefusal’s terrains: epistemic, relational/non-relational (presence without capture…
Predictive Curricula and the Foreclosure of Pedagogical Futures
This article theorizes predictive curricula: the reorganization of schooling around data extraction, dashboards, and algorithmic governance that translate learners into dividual profiles and narrow inquiry to what is computable. It maps how protocol and platform logics preempt pedagogical judgment, route bodies and knowledges through thresholds and alerts, and sediment a predisteme—an epistemic order that renders deviation a form of computational…
The Educative as Violence
This article critiques the inherent violence within conventional education systems, examining their determinative and coercive constructions as forms onto‐epistemic violence. While marginalized groups experience intensified forms of this violence, all students are subjected to educational normativity that disciplines, regulates, and constrains learning through compulsory structures. Drawing on poststructural theorists such as Henry Giroux, Judith…
Challenging Social Studies Education as a Cultural Literate Discipline
The violences of disability disclosure and the aberrant possibilities of the crip
This article delves into the processes of disability disclosure, cripped experiences and a particular theoretical flight with posthuman subjectivity. The article critiques disability disclosure for coercively reifying cripped experiences into normative narratives. Moreover, disclosures determine coercive and performative regimes in educational contexts, where disciplinary power defines possible experiences for cripped folks. Drawing on Foucault's…
Crip time as time shit
In this piece, I make two interconnected arguments that attempt a dislocation of temporality as an organizing apparatus of reality as normative. In using Derrida's "Exordium" to Specters of Marx, I make the argument that crip theory should expound theory as an instantiation of self-theory - intending towards the self within and of theory yet never totalizing such theoretical explorations towards the universal. In another way, I make two subsequen…
Disability as performance/curriculum
In this article, there is a cripped arugmentation towards and away from performance as curricular. In other words, what we are trying to more fully grapple with is how curriculum within the school and otherwise becomes and is embodied within the body as a performative action towards and away from “dis”ability as a means of essentializing, normalizing and reifying means of “dis”ability as disability—curriculum as a way of interpreting and enacting…
The ever-diminishing liminal space of being
Within this article, I make multiple interconnected arguments around the idea of the subject, the process of subjectivization, the essentializing nature of most of our research processes in academia, the socializing of existence, the loss of 'nature,' and the obliteration of what Homi Bhabha has so accurately described as liminal space: a space where humans may escape the socializing processes of performance and existence that is demanded in spac…
Reflections on student power
This exploration takes a look at how students in higher education are disempowered through regimes of social power that are always already extant and ubiquitous within educational regimes. Moreover, this exploration pays particular interest and attention to students in higher education because in many cases throughout relevant research, these student populations are conceived as being the most empowered students within a broad educational landsca…
Crip time as time shit
In this piece, I make two interconnected arguments that attempt a dislocation of temporality as an organizing apparatus of reality as normative. In using Derrida's "Exordium" to Specters of Marx, I make the argument that crip theory should expound theory as an instantiation of self-theory - intending towards the self within and of theory yet never totalizing such theoretical explorations towards the universal. In another way, I make two subsequen…
The ever-diminishing liminal space of being
Within this article, I make multiple interconnected arguments around the idea of the subject, the process of subjectivization, the essentializing nature of most of our research processes in academia, the socializing of existence, the loss of 'nature,' and the obliteration of what Homi Bhabha has so accurately described as liminal space: a space where humans may escape the socializing processes of performance and existence that is demanded in spac…
Reflections on student power
This exploration takes a look at how students in higher education are disempowered through regimes of social power that are always already extant and ubiquitous within educational regimes. Moreover, this exploration pays particular interest and attention to students in higher education because in many cases throughout relevant research, these student populations are conceived as being the most empowered students within a broad educational landsca…
Disability as performance/curriculum
In this article, there is a cripped arugmentation towards and away from performance as curricular. In other words, what we are trying to more fully grapple with is how curriculum within the school and otherwise becomes and is embodied within the body as a performative action towards and away from “dis”ability as a means of essentializing, normalizing and reifying means of “dis”ability as disability—curriculum as a way of interpreting and enacting…
The ever-diminishing liminal space of being
Within this article, I make multiple interconnected arguments around the idea of the subject, the process of subjectivization, the essentializing nature of most of our research processes in academia, the socializing of existence, the loss of 'nature,' and the obliteration of what Homi Bhabha has so accurately described as liminal space: a space where humans may escape the socializing processes of performance and existence that is demanded in spac…
The violences of disability disclosure and the aberrant possibilities of the crip
This article delves into the processes of disability disclosure, cripped experiences and a particular theoretical flight with posthuman subjectivity. The article critiques disability disclosure for coercively reifying cripped experiences into normative narratives. Moreover, disclosures determine coercive and performative regimes in educational contexts, where disciplinary power defines possible experiences for cripped folks. Drawing on Foucault's…
Crip time as time shit
In this piece, I make two interconnected arguments that attempt a dislocation of temporality as an organizing apparatus of reality as normative. In using Derrida's "Exordium" to Specters of Marx, I make the argument that crip theory should expound theory as an instantiation of self-theory - intending towards the self within and of theory yet never totalizing such theoretical explorations towards the universal. In another way, I make two subsequen…
The Educative as Violence
This article critiques the inherent violence within conventional education systems, examining their determinative and coercive constructions as forms onto‐epistemic violence. While marginalized groups experience intensified forms of this violence, all students are subjected to educational normativity that disciplines, regulates, and constrains learning through compulsory structures. Drawing on poststructural theorists such as Henry Giroux, Judith…
Challenging Social Studies Education as a Cultural Literate Discipline
Refusals as Access-Otherwise
This article reframes student refusal not as a geography of disciplinary coercion but asaccess-otherwise: livable, consent-based ways of appearing, thinking, and learning. Drawing oncrip theory (compulsory able-bodymindedness, crip time, disability justice) and anarchic theory(destituent power, prefiguration, opacity), I read four classroom vignettes to grapple withrefusal’s terrains: epistemic, relational/non-relational (presence without capture…
Predictive Curricula and the Foreclosure of Pedagogical Futures
This article theorizes predictive curricula: the reorganization of schooling around data extraction, dashboards, and algorithmic governance that translate learners into dividual profiles and narrow inquiry to what is computable. It maps how protocol and platform logics preempt pedagogical judgment, route bodies and knowledges through thresholds and alerts, and sediment a predisteme—an epistemic order that renders deviation a form of computational…
Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Curriculum (2 works) · Digital Education and Society (2 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (2 works)