Indian Disability Study Collective

The 5th IDSC International Conference,Guwahati

The Indian Disability Studies Collective in association with the Department of English, Cotton University, Guwahati and Centre for Women’s Studies, Cotton University, Guwahati presents The 5th IDSC International Conference, 6-7 March, 2025 Call for Abstracts on Crip Encounters: Disability and Contemporary Conversations While offering a political/relational model of reconfiguring disability as a category and experience, Alison Kafer insists on the need to “contextualize, historically and politically, the meanings typically attributed to disability, thereby positioning “disability” as a set of practices and associations that can be critiqued, contested, and transformed” (2013, p 26). Treating disability as a self-contained rigid category limits its potential to make meaningful interventions in...