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Eliza Chandler

Eliza Chandler

Media & Culture; Technology in Practice
DepartmentDisability Studies (Toronto Metropolitan University)
Areas of ExpertiseAccessibility; Embodiment; Representation, identity and culture; Research-creation and media practices; Visual culture

My research program explores the intersection between disability arts and social justice and I work within community-engaged research projects using research-creation (artmaking). I am currently interested in critical access - access led by disabled people that centres disability anti-assimilationist politics - and how this framework informs crip cultural practices. Other research interests include crip technoscience, non-hierarchical leadership structures within arts administration, decolonizing disability, social movements, and crip necropolitics.

Disability Publics Lab

ReVision Centre for Art and Social Justice (external link) 

Recent publications:

Chandler, E., Aubrecht, K., Ignagni, E., & Rice, C. (2021). Cripistemologies of Disability Arts & Culture: Reflections on the Cripping the Arts Symposium. Studies in Social Justice, 15(2).

Ignagni, E., Chandler, E., & Collins, K. (2021). Seeing death differently through disability after MAiD. International Journal of Health Trends and Perspectives, 1(3), 336-344.

Dion, S., Rice, C., & Chandler, E. (2021). Decolonizing disability arts. Disability Studies Quarterly, 42(1).

Chandler, E., & Johnson, M. (2021). Reflections on Crip Imitations as Cultural Space-Making. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 15(4), 383-399.

Jimmy, E., & Chandler, E. (2021). A push for a different relationship with time, temporality and acces(sen)sibility. El Alto, 2.