ABSTRACT
In The Bio-Politics of Disability, this chapter argues for the recognition of disability inclusionist practices in Higher Education as purposefully insufficient. It proves purposefully insufficient due to a profound reluctance to achieve results that might meaningfully encounter the fleshy realization of such a mission. The avoidance of disability amid the professed diversity pursuits in institutions of higher education is, in many ways, a given due to the academy's longstanding emphasis on producing members of a normative professional middle class as one key rite of passage into bourgeois. The neoliberal university is effectively a product of what Lauren Berlant in her definition of sexuality refers to as 'a set of patterns that align you to the world in a particular way'. People with disabilities remain noticeably absent in higher education. Avoidance in the academy is an active outcome of work undertaken in the process of accomplishing 'diversity' in higher education.
