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Cripping Methodology Reading Group:
Cripping, Sickening, Neurodiversifying & Maddening Methodology
Meeting year: 2026
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<< THIS IS THE NEAR FINAL READING LIST: SMALL ADJUSTMENTS MIGHT STILL HAPPEN >>
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The Cripping Methodology Reading Group: Cripping, Sickening, Neurodiversifying & Maddening Pedagogy takes place on the 3rd Friday of the month in 2026.
Since 2019, meetings have commenced 3pm. In 2026, most meetings are 3-4.30pm, but the May & June meetings 3-4.15pm.​ This year there will be a Summer Break in July, and the Dec meeting is on the 2nd Fri.
As this is not a module and no teaching takes place, I have taken the liberty to not following a teaching format where steps-wise meeting content builds on each other. Instead, I have chosen to offer a variation between types of texts - i.e mixing up more methodological and more methods/'technique' style texts. I have only included readings to discuss that centre on -- rather than (merely) use or apply --methods/methodology. All texts have some aspect of cripness, sickness, madness or neurodivergence in their methodological angle, but in my selection I have also kept an intersectional focus in mind.
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As it is very hard to find the methodology texts like the below, next to the readings for the meetings, I have added some 'other interesting readings for consultation' that I found. But, you are not expected to read for the RG meeting.
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To attend, click here for details how to be added to the mailing list. This also gives you access to the readings
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Upcoming Cripping Methodology RG Meeting​​​​​​​
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Meeting 109: 16 Jan 2026, 3-4.30pm UK
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Topic: Introducing: Cripping Methodology
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Readings:
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Minich, Julie Avril. (2016). "Enabling whom? Critical Disability Studies now". Lateral, 5(1), https://csalateral.org/issue/5-1/forum-alt-humanities-critical-disability-studies-now-minich
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Nusbaum, Emily A, & Lester, Jessica Nina. (2021). "Bodymind legibility and possibilities for qualitative research". In: Jessica Nina Lester & Emily A Nusbaum (Eds), Centering Diverse Bodyminds in Critical Qualitative Inquiry (pp.10–21): Routledge.
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Other interesting readings for consultation (on cripistemology)
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Johnson, Merri Lisa, & McRuer, Robert. (2014). "Cripistemologies: introduction". Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 8(2), pp.127–148.
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Patsavas, Alyson. (2014), "Recovering a cripistemology of pain," Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 8(2), 203–219 https://revistas.uece.br/index.php/kalagatos/article/view/13639/11824
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McRuer, Robert, & Johnson, Merri Lisa. (2014). "Proliferating cripistemologies: A virtual roundtable". Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 8(2), pp.149–169.
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Future Meetings​​​​​​​​​​​
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Meeting 110: 20 Feb 2026, 3-4.30pm UK
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Topic: Research ethics
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Reading:
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LeFrançois, Brenda A, & Voronka, Jijian. "Mad epistemologies and maddening the ethics of knowledge production," In: Teresa Macías (Ed), Unravelling Research: The Ethics and Politics of Research in the Social Sciences (pp.105–130): Fernwood Publishing.
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Other interesting readings for consultation
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Rice, Carla, LaMarre, Andrea, & Mykitiuk, Roxanne. (2018). "Cripping the ethics of disability arts research". The Palgrave Handbook of Ethics in Critical Research (pp.257–272): Springer.
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​Wool, Zoë H (2023). "Lessons in yielding: Crip refusal and ethical research praxis". In: Mara Mills & Rebecca Sanchez (Eds), Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (pp.162–169): New York University Press.
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Munday, Katie. (2024). "The (In)Accessibility of UK Universities’ Ethics Application in Humanities and Social Sciences". In: Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist & David Jackson-Perry (Eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Research Methods and Ethics in Neurodiversity Studies (pp.309–324). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
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Grant, Aimee, Williams, Kathryn, Henry, Karen, et al. (2024). "Co-developing an Autism Research Funding Application to Facilitate Ethical and Participatory Research: The Autism from Menstruation to Menopause Project ". In: Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist & David Jackson-Perry (Eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Research Methods and Ethics in Neurodiversity Studies (pp.61–80). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
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Johansson, Shruti Taneja. (2024). "Fostering ethical and caring fieldwork practices in ADHD research". In: Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist & David Jackson-Perry (Eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Research Methods and Ethics in Neurodiversity Studies (pp.183–198). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
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Meeting 111: 20 Mar 2026, 3-4.30pm UK
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Topic: Accessing the field
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Reading:
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Price, M. & Kerschbaum, S. L. (2016). Stories of methodology: Interviewing sideways, crooked and crip. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 5(3), 18-56. https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/295
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Other interesting readings for consultation
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Brown, Lindsey, & Boardman, Felicity K. (2011). "Accessing the field: Disability and the research process". Social Science & Medicine, 72(1), pp.23–30.
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Wong, Alice. (2021). "Inside/out: Qualitative methods, online archives, and advocacy". In: Jessica Nina Lester & Emily A Nusbaum (Eds), Centering Diverse Bodyminds in Critical Qualitative Inquiry (pp.62–80): Routledge.
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Selsdon, Helen. (2023). "Creating a fully accessible digital Helen Keller Archive". In: Mara Mills & Rebecca Sanchez (Eds), Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (pp.170–177): New York University Press.
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Chapman, Claire M. (2024). "Using Email Interviews to Understand Autistic Experiences". In: Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist & David Jackson-Perry (Eds), The Palgrave Handbook of Research Methods and Ethics in Neurodiversity Studies (pp.359–378). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
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Heilig, L., & Sandell Hardesty, K. (2024). Acceptable thresholds: Learning from critical disability methodology to inform embodied qualitative research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 23, 1-11
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Coelho, Luisa Bandeira. (2025). "Navigating International Sign in Glocal Deaf Networks: Developing Deaf-centred Methodologies in Transnational Deaf Community Spaces". Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 14(2), pp.171–197, https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/1251/1379
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Meeting 112: 17 Apr 2026, 3-4.30pm UK
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Topic: Quantitative methods
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Reading:
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Blanchard, Aurélien, Blanchard, Enka, & Shew, Ashley. (2024). "404 Not Found: Quantitative methods in Disability Studies". In: Tommaso Venturini, Amelia Acker, Jean-Christophe Plantin & Tone Walford (Eds), Sage Handbook of Data and Society: Sage.
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Other interesting readings for consultation
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Haber, Lawrence D. (1967). "Identifying the disabled: Concepts and methods in the measurement of disability". Soc. Sec. Bull., 30, pp.17.
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Murray, C. J., & Lopez, A. D. (1994). "Quantifying disability: data, methods and results". Bull World Health Organ, 72(3), pp.481–494.
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Cosier, Meghan. (2012). "“The Road Less Traveled”: Combining Disability Studies and Quantitative Analysis with Medium and Large Data Sets". Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 37(2), pp.81–88.
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Gerrard, Paul. (2014). "Quantitative studies of validity: expanding our understanding of disability". Disability and Rehabilitation, 36(21), pp.1817–1822.
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Waxman, Douglas. (2024). "Disability and employment research: Mind the gap". Handbook of Disability: Critical Thought and Social Change in a Globalizing World (pp.1151–1205): Springer.
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Meeting 113: 15 May 2026, 3-4.15pm UK [note: the RG ends 4.15pm UK, without a break]
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Topic: Writing as method
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Reading:
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Simplican, Stacy Clifford. (2017). "Feminist disability studies as methodology: Life-writing and the abled/disabled binary". Feminist Review, 115(1), pp.46–60.
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Other interesting readings for consultation
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Islam, Mohaiminul , & Jana, Ujjwal. (2023). "Disability Life Writing in India". In: Mara Mills & Rebecca Sanchez (Eds), Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (pp.210–217): New York University Press.
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Meeting 114: 19 June 2026, 3-4.30pm UK [note: the RG ends 4.15pm UK, without a break]
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Topic: Liming
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Reading:
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​Stephens-Peace, Kat. (2024). "Liming as Black Methodology: Black Early Career Scholars Engage Black Humanity in Research". International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 23, pp.1-8
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Other interesting readings
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Cosenza, Julie. (2014). "Language matters: A dyslexic methodology". Qualitative Inquiry, 20(10), pp.1191–1201.
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Attias, Michelle D. (2020). "Mind-meandering as AD(H)D methodology: An embodied, neuroqueer practice of art-making and resistance in dialogue with Kurt Cobain’s and Lee Lozano’s Journals," Research in Arts & Education, (Dec), 53–85 https://wiki.aalto.fi/download/attachments/185192372/_Michelle_Attias_4_2020-1.pdf​​
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July 2026: Summer Break
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Meeting 115: 21 August 2026, 3-4.30pm UK
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Topic: Go-along method
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Reading:
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Castrodale, Mark Anthony. (2018). "Mobilizing dis/ability research: A critical discussion of qualitative go-along interviews in practice". Qualitative inquiry, 24(1), pp.45–55.
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Other interesting readings for consultation
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​Chandler, Eliza, Johnson, Megan, Gold, Becky, et al. (2019). "Cripistemologies in the city: 'Walking-together' as sense-making,"Journal of Public Pedagogies, (4), http://www.publicpedagogies.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/08-Chandler.pdf
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​​Meeting 116: 18 Sep 2026, 3-4.30pm UK
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Topic: Co-researching
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Reading:
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Dronkert, Leonie. (2023). "Cripping collaboration: Science fiction and the access to disability worlds". Medical Anthropology, 42(8), pp.720–736.
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Other interesting readings for consultation
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Liddiard, Kirsty, Whitney, Sally, Evans, Katy, et al. (2019). "Working the edges of Posthuman disability studies: theorising with disabled young people with life-limiting impairments". Sociology of Health & Illness, 41(8), pp.1473–1487.
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Dwornik, Ania. (2021). "The interface of mad studies and indigenous ways of knowing: innovation, co-creation, and decolonization". Critical Social Work, 22(2), pp.25–39.
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Meeting 117: 16 Oct 2026, 3-4.30pm UK
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Topic: Creative methods
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Reading:
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Changfoot, Nadine, Rice, Carla, Chivers, Sally, et al. (2022). "Revisioning aging: Indigenous, crip and queer renderings". Journal of Aging Studies, 63(100930), pp.1–9.
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Other interesting readings​​
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Cosenza, Julie. (2014). "The crisis of collage: Disability, queerness, and chrononormativity". Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 14(2), pp.155–163
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​Klar, Estée, & Wolfond, Adam. (2021). "Neurodiversity in relation: Artistic intraethnographic practice". In: Jessica Nina Lester & Emily A Nusbaum (Eds), Centering Diverse Bodyminds in Critical Qualitative Inquiry (pp.22–36): Routledge
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Meeting 118: 20 Nov 2026, 3-4.30pm UK
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Topic: Online ethnographic observation
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Reading:
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Gibson, Margaret F, Livingstone, Bridget, Monroe, Hannah, et al. (2024). "Observing neurodiversity, observing methodology: Ethnography in pandemic times". International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 23, pp.1-13
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Other interesting readings for consultation
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Rogers, Emily Lim. (2023). "Virtual ethnography". In: Mara Mills & Rebecca Sanchez (Eds), Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (pp.93–98): New York University Press.
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Centrone, di Barbara, & Costantino, Elisa. (2025). "Multiple discrimination: an intersectional study on the embodied experience of LGBTQIAP+ disabled people". The Lab’s Quarterly, XXVII, pp.55–87
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Meeting 119: 11 Dec 2026, 3-4.30pm UK [note: this is the 2nd Fri]
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Topic: Sensory methods
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Reading:
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Barry, Ben, Nesbitt, Philippa, & Strickfaden, Megan. (2024). "Multi-sensory methods: Toward a crip methodology in fashion studies". International Journal of Fashion Studies, 11, pp.81–109.
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Other interesting readings for consultation
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​Riggs, Alexandra Teixeira, Janicki, Sylvia, Moesgen, Tim, et al. (2025). "Queer/Crip Body Mapping: Expressing Dynamic Bodily Experiences with Data". Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp.2884–2900), https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3715336.3735438.
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Sitter, Kathleen, Young, Amber PE, Herrera, Ana, et al. (2025). "Multisensory Storytelling in Disability Arts: Innovations in Accessibility and Audience Engagement". Studies in Social Justice, 19(2), pp.336–360.
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Past Meetings
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Reading: xx
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Further reading suggestions
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Find here suggestions of texts we have already read in previous reading groups and that touch on on methodology:
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