Abstract
The Question of Access is a book which aims to convey the constructions of access in the context of higher education in Canada and which engages with deeply held (but disavowed) notions of who belo...
Highlights
I am most interested in examining how the lack of access for disabled people is naturalized to such an extent that even barriers and processes of exclusion are noticed they are still conceived as somehow natural, reasonable, sensible, and even seemingly justified. (xi)
Titchkosky provides a detailed exploration of how this duality of thinking sits beneath notions of reasonableness, one where reason and cost are somehow overriding considerations even where disabled people are serially excluded
Largely drawn at the meso-level of institutional struggle Titchkosky makes clear that paradoxically the very structures and systems set up to enable disabled people at times function as systems of exclusion and ‘rational’ justifications for those exclusions: I pursue the idea that the most ordinary or acceptable ways to speak of access and its improvement may be a major barrier to the improvement of access. (xiii)
Summary
I am most interested in examining how the lack of access for disabled people (and our absence) is naturalized to such an extent that even barriers and processes of exclusion are noticed they are still conceived as somehow natural, reasonable, sensible, and even seemingly justified. (xi). The question of access: disability, space and meaning, by Tanya Titchkosky, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2011, 177 pp., CAD$24.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-14426-1000-2, $55.00 (bound), ISBN 978-1-4426-4026-9
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