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Example of Incommensurability

Price evokes Tuck and Yang’s idea of incommensurability to point out that, as an example, as we are working to create more accessible and anti-ableist academic spaces we also have to acknowledge and hold in tension that while settler-colonialism sits at the root of why academic spaces are inaccessible, settler-colonialism is also a cornerstone of to modern academy - including the fact that many U.S. universities were established by the Morill Land Grant Act to directly take land away from native nations.

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Updated 2026-01-10

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