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In this chapter I sketch a picture of present-day exclusion as experienced by people with disabilities, and consider some of the activities that have been undertaken to overturn it. I consider that some of the potholes of disability scholarship can be found here: between the continued tangible experiences of people with disabilities of marginalisation and the political and social actions that are aimed at challenging their causes.
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Whitburn, B. (2015). Attending to the Potholes of Disability Scholarship. In: Corcoran, T., White, J., Whitburn, B. (eds) Disability Studies. Innovations and Controversies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-199-1_14
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