ABSTRACT
Over the last several years, disability studies has moved out of the applied fields of medicine, social work, and rehabilitation to becomea vibrant new field of inquirywithin the critical genre of identity studies that has developedsoproductively in thehumanities over the last 20 or so years. Chargedwith the
residual fervor of the civil rights movement, women’s studies and race studies established a model in the academy for identitybasedcritical enterprises that followed, such as gender studies, queer studies, disability studies, and aproliferationof ethnic studies, all of which have enriched and complicated our understandings of social justice, subject formation, subjugated knowledges, and collective action.
