ABSTRACT
This chapter explores accessibility as an imperative for researchers, instructors and institutional spaces, as well as a threefold methodological challenge. First, as scholars in Critical Disability Studies argue, access is a boundary-negotiating practice, calling for the affordances that differing disciplines provide. Second, access requires emergent and inventive methods, rather than the pre-set methods supplied by disciplines; the discipline of Philosophy serves as an example of overly restrictive methods. Third, resonant with recent work in Critical Disability Studies, transdisciplinary methods proffer a kind of friction that can ease, even redress, exclusions that disciplines produce – exclusions that extend to ableist and curative practices. At stake in this chapter’s engagement with Critical Disability Studies is a collective responsiveness towards generating new, pluralistic methods.
