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Podcast: New Books in Disability Studies
Episode: Aimi Hamraie, âBuilding Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disabilityâ (U Minnesota Press, 2017)
Description: The Americans with Disability Act passed in 1990, but it was just one moment in ongoing efforts to craft the meaning and practice of âgood designâ that put people with disabilities at the center. In their new book, Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), Aimi Hamraie takes a âsledgehammer to historyâ in the spirit of one guerrilla activist group that they track in the archivesâamong many other people, objects, and historical contexts. Hamraie focuses on work around âaccess-knowledgeââthat is, the forms of expertise that were considered legitimate ways of knowing and responding to dis...