Kelly Fritsch
Canada Research Chair in Disability, Health and Social Justice
- PhD (York)
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“By documenting the knowledge, culture and practices of disability justice social movement participants, my research will yield innovative insights enabling society to better understand and respond to the needs of disabled people in Canada.”
Kelly Fritsch of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology is working to illuminate the persistent and intersecting barriers that impede disabled people’s flourishing in Canada. Her research program collects, analyzes and disseminates knowledge about the historical and current ways disabled people resist ableist social structures through disability justice.
Fritsch’s research explores what is possible if we anticipate and desire disabled people as part of our communities, and how disability justice activists, artists, scholars and policy makers work to collaboratively dismantle ableism and foster accessibility. It will inform Canadian disability policy, challenge ableism and inaccessibility, enhance disability justice as a scholarly area, preserve the knowledge of disabled people and cultivate their contributions. Read more in Carleton’s latest CRC announcement.
See more highlights of Fritsch’s research from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
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