Crip Embodiment as Resistance to the Neoliberal Academy

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ID23310814
AuthorsEbony Muller (0000-0001-6315-4320, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author)
Year2026
Publication date2026-07-27
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1440-7833 • E-ISSN: 1741-2978
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/14407833261470152
OpenAlexW7171356399
LanguageEN
References cited13

Disability disrupts ableist, neoliberal fantasies and demands for unlimited health and capacity. When the body can no longer will itself to neoliberal standards, people and environments must shift to make space for the crip, as the nature of their embodiment ‘leaks’ and spills out in the neoliberal workplace. Informed by a sociological understanding of the management and performance of bodies, this article utilises personal reflection on teaching and working in the academy to present a crip pedagogical manifesto in three parts: how disability embodiments and conceptions disrupt ableist ideals; how crip care can be a cannon for more intersectional forms of care; and the leaks of the author's own crip embodiment in the academy. Here, disability embodiment is presented as a generative, active site that strengthens ties to self and community care: a site of embodied and political resistance to the neoliberal academy.

Embodied cognition · Invisibility · Manifesto · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Politics · Reflection (computer programming) · Resistance (ecology) · Space (punctuation) · Disability Rights and Representation · Emotional Labor in Professions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

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