Price discusses that despite the fact that in conversations of access we talk a lot about time since time is highly relative with terms used to describe it often being comparative (e.g. immediate, delay, fast, slow) we don't have a meaningful reference or shared metric around time. 

Conceptualizations of Time

Price situates accountability as a component in time that is understudied in looking at not just how disability goes unaccounted for in certain ideas of time, but also how in how we account for our selves, our pasts and our communal pasts within time.

Time and Accountability

Price proposes that the interaction between time and disability, in particular expectations set around time by academic institutions, can cause harm in various ways and that these harms are rarely perceived by those not experiencing these harms or not until a disaster occurs

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The subcodes Price included under time were:
- Academic clock 
- Conditional time 
- Duration of disability or illness
- Duration of obtaining accommodation(s)
- Duration of using accommodation(s)
- Flexibility
- Pace
- Planning ahead
- Redistribution of course load or work duties
- Repetition/frequency
- Single chance for something
- Stamina
- Suddeness
- Time of day
- Time off during the workday
- Time off (longer term)
- Unpredictability
- Time - Other

Time Subcodes

Price, M. (2024). Crip Spacetime. Duke University Press.

Crip Spacetime

The term academic clock generally refers to the time it is expected, for white male non-disabled students, faculty, or academic staff, to reach a point in their academic career - for instance the tenure clock, which is the policy in most universities that a tenure-track professor is up for tenure review seven years after the start their job at that university, or the time it is expected a student will take to earn their degree. Not abiding by an academic clock can have real consequences - having to take out more in student loans, having a poor tenure review, or being seen as less than peers.

Academic Clock

Conditional time is the idea that if x happens then y will happen. 

Conditional Time

Price points out that, in understanding space as political-relational, space is inseparable from time and relations. Price also notes that this inseparability relates to materialist rhetorics and the idea that space is relational if we are not centering humans or animals as the only beings with animacy and agency.

Space as Political-Relational and Time

Harms of Time

Slow Professoring, introduced by Maggie Bergs and Barbara K. Seeber, is a proposed way of asserting Crip Spacetime and Crip Time within academic spaces that often punish slowness by centering deliberation and slowness over acceleration in academic work.

Slow Professoring

Price offers the framing of the Accommodations Loop as a predictable pattern that came forward in interviews around the intertwining of time and accommodations in academia. The Accommodations Loop is made up of five concrete experiences and events: Time-sensitive needs;, Slow system, Emotional cost, Employee uses own resources, and Employee may leave job. In formatting this loop as a figure eight Price signals that these are not discrete or linear events rather disabled academics are in constant travel through these events.

Accommodations Loop

Ambient uncertainty can also occur across time; for instance, previous marginalizing experiences can lead to the perception of a consistent risk of that marginalization occuring again. Alternatively, previous marginalization (for instance, not being accommodated at work) can lead to more marginalization (for instance, experiencing poverty).

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