Mad Scholars: Reclaiming and Reimagining the Neurodiverse Academy by Melanie Jon

The Nile on eBay   Mad Scholars by Melanie Jones, Shayda Kafai, Sav Schlauderaff, Shawna Guenther, Rebecca Eli Long, Jess L. Wilcox Cowing, Sydney F. Lewis, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha, Caché Owens

As universities rethink their approach to student and faculty mental health, this book showcases academics who proudly embrace the label of the ""mad scholar."" The volume explores the infinite richness of neurodivergent scholars' lived experiences, centering their stories in opposition to hegemonic sanism and ableism in the academy.

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As universities rethink their approach to student and faculty mental health, Mad Scholar showcases academics who proudly embrace the label of the "mad scholar." In twenty-three essays from contributors working in nearly a dozen disciplines across three continents, the volume explores the infinite richness of neurodivergent scholars' lived experiences, centering their stories in opposition to hegemonic sanism and ableism in the academy. These essays, valuable to any "mad scholar" at any point in their career, highlight the challenges of simply existing within the traditional university model as well as showcase celebrations of community building, self-identification, and connection with students.A corrective for neurodivergent scholars too used to having their experiences and stories told for them, this collection examines how a more open-minded administrative approach to academics who identify at the intersection of various marginalized identities would be a boon both to students and faculty. The essays provide an opportunity to envision a more hopeful, inclusive, and optimistic view of university culture and pedagogy, while offering concrete steps and strategies that radically reimagine the current landscape. Mad Scholars boldly dreams of a better future for anyone who claims the label, seeking to find fellowship, accommodation, and acceptance both within and outside of academia.

Author Biography

Melanie Jones is a faculty member at Bard College in the Bard Prison Initiative program. She has a PhD in comparative literature, and her work has appeared in such journals as the Victorian Review.Shayda Kafai is assistant professor of ethnic and women's studies at California State Polytechnic University. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Lesbian Studies and Women's Studies Quarterly.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Naming Ourselves MadPart One. Mad Pathways, Mad Exits1. Don't Call it "Mental Health" - A Discussion on disability Euphemisms and Disability Community2. My PhD Drove Me Crazy (but I Was Already Mad)3. Complaint as a Maddening Practice (Moving through the University as a Mad Grad Student)4. Rest as Feminist Disability Praxis, or How to Write While Flaring, Depressed, and totally Burned Out5. Diary of a Mad Black Woman in the AcademyPart Two. Researching the Self6. I'm Too Crazy for a Job - Thoroughbreds, Fuckups, and Autistic, Mad, Disabled, Femme Grassroots Intellectual-Freedom Portals7. Embrace the Lie - Seeking Truths through Reading, madly8. The Madmotherscholar in Academia and Beyond9. In-Cite - The Mad Possibility of Interethnography10. The Subject is MadPart Three. Disclosure and Disruptive Pedagogies11. Mad Lyrics - Toward an Embodied, Community-Responsive Pedagogy of Care in Academia12. Mad Pedagogy in Disabling Academia13. Teaching for Mad Liberation: Crip Dreaming toward a Transformative Pedagogy of Madness14. Learning and teaching Bad as Resistance: Queer Crip Pilpinx Bad Pedagogy15. "The Deadly Space Between" Toward and Mad Pedagogy and Mad Methodology16. Crazy Femme Pedagogies: Toward an ArchivePart Four. Mad Imaginaries, from Kinship to Community17. Mad Resilience, Mad Kinship: Alternative Responses to Student Mental Health Crises18. Anchoring in Mad Solidarity19 Mad Laughter: On Finding and Forming Graduate Communities through Memes20. On Mad Advantage, Redux: Covering, Passing, Negotiating (in) Higher Education21. Landing without Failing: The Fucking Blue Dots22. Orienting toward Togetherness: A Mad Phenomenology

Review

Mad Scholars critiques academic culture's entrenched ableism and sanism and shows how difficult—still—it is to be recognized as having a positive, credible, valuable Mad subjectivity. The diverse voices in this book give us pathways for leading with care, both for ourselves and others. They reimagine academia. They tell us that our institutions can do better. This is a collection we need." — (Elizabeth Brewer, Central Connecticut State University)

Details ISBN0815638469 Author Caché Owens Pages 396 Publisher Syracuse University Press Series Critical Perspectives on Disability Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780815638469 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-08-15 Imprint Syracuse University Press Subtitle Reclaiming and Reimagining the Neurodiverse Academy Country of Publication United States Edited by Shayda Kafai US Release Date 2024-08-15 Place of Publication New York Audience Professional & Vocational ISBN-10 0815638469 UK Release Date 2024-08-15 DEWEY 378.0087 We've got this

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