B4: The nexus of disability, social work, and the university

Cameron McKenzie (he/him) and Maryam Khan (she/her) from Wilfrid Laurier University

In this presentation, two disabled social work faculty from a Canadian university conclude that their social exclusion is inevitable under systemic neoliberalist priorities of individualism, efficiency, and productivity. We engage in a systems analysis of how educational institutions, namely universities, engage in practices and processes of social exclusion of disabled faculty through neoliberalist ideologies, institutional policies, and practices. We use an auto-ethnographic case study method, guided by an intersectional and disability justice theoretical framing, to challenge the ahistorical and non-relational tendencies of neoliberalism in its many forms.

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