TY - BOOK AU - Brown,Nicole AU - Leigh,Jennifer TI - Ableism in academia: theorising experiences of disabilities and chronic illnesses in higher education SN - 9781787355002 PB - UCL Press KW - Universities and colleges KW - Employees KW - Legal status, laws, etc KW - Discrimination against people with disabilities KW - College students with disabilities KW - People with disabilities KW - Sociology of disability N1 - This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0); Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. The significance of crashing past gatekeepers of knowledge: Towards full participation of disabled scholars in ableist academic structures -- 2. I am not disabled: Difference, ethics, critique and refusal of neoliberal academic selves -- 3. Disclosure in academia: A sensitive issue -- 4. Fibromyalgia and me -- 5. A practical response to ableism in leadership in UK higher education -- 6. Autoimmune actions in the ableist academy: A crip response -- 7. 'But you don't look disabled': Non-visible disabilities, disclosure and being an 'insider' in disability research and 'other' in the disability movement and academia -- 8. Invisible disability, unacknowledged diversity -- 9. Imposter -- 10. Internalised ableism: Of the political and the personal -- 11. From the personal to the political: Ableism, activism and academia -- 12. The violence of technicism: Ableism as humiliation and degrading treatment --13. A little bit extra; Electronic reproduction; London; UCL Press; 2020; Available in PDF format; Description based on contents viewed 19 October 2020 UR - https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787354975 ER -