Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
8 results found in critical disability studies.
- Counteractive Frictions (Counteractive Friction)
- A concept introduced by Ly et al. for the deliberate, strategically produced disruptions that marginalised communities generate to contest hegemonic infrastructures — petitions, protests, Human Rights…
- Counterventions (Countervention)
- A concept introduced by Rua Williams, Louanne Boyd, and Juan Gilbert for reflexive interventions in HCI and design that unsettle ableist norms by shifting focus from individual deficit to exclusionary…
- Crip Spacetime
- A concept developed by disability-studies scholar Margaret Price to describe the material-discursive reality in which disabled people live according to temporalities and spatialities that remain invis…
- Multiply Marginalized (Multiply Marginalised, Multiply Marginalized Disabled People)
- A term used in disability justice and intersectional scholarship to describe people whose lived experience sits at the intersection of multiple marginalised identities — for example, disabled people w…
- Residual Category (Residual Categories)
- A concept from Susan Leigh Star describing the "other" or "not applicable" categories in classification systems — the bucket where anything that does not fit predefined types gets placed. Individuals …
- Resistant Reading (Reading Against the Grain, Resistant Reader)
- A critical reading method, originally articulated by feminist literary theorist Judith Fetterley, that refuses the interpretive framework an author invites the reader to adopt and instead reads texts …
- Routine Infrastructuring
- A concept developed by Bryan Semaan describing community practices through which marginalised and oppressed groups continually reconfigure sociotechnical arrangements to sustain everyday life under pe…
- Testimonial Injustice
- A form of epistemic injustice, articulated by Miranda Fricker, in which a speaker's credibility is unjustly deflated because of prejudice attached to their identity. In accessibility and aging researc…