Price notes that categorization of disability can be unhelpful because it can reaffirm existing relations of power and oppression, and that we have to be wary of categorization systems that may work to separate disabled people into those deemed worthy or unworthy by neoliberal aims. For instance, disabled folks may use categorization to distance themselves from individuals deemed intellectually disabled because of histories of abled people being infantalizing toward disabled people out of an ableist assumption that all disabled people were intellectually disabled. However, the categorization can aid in the abandonment of intellectually disabled people by others.

Price's Critique of Disability Categorization

Price notes that participants discussed how mobility needs weren't always visible and their mobility was impacted by not just the accessibility of a physical space but also by time and relations.

Mobility Visibility

Price notes that often disabled people are asked to rely on access workers, whether it be interpreters, captioners, paratransit drivers, etc. While these individuals are often seen as givens in systems of creating access under an accommodations-based-framework, there can can be problems when these individuals act in ways that create inaccess.

Relationships and Mobility

Price discusses how interviewees noted that they often felt the need to work to make themselves indepensible in often unsecure adjunct positions because many disabled adjunct faculty felt like they both would not be seen as hireable for a tenure-track position and they aren't able to move between universities as easily as non-disabled adjuncts because of having medical care and paramedical care situated in on geographic area.

Disability and Geographic Mobility

Price notes that in Disability Studies, mobility refers to whether an individual's bodymind moves in a particular way, for instance walking or rolling. Mobility is also used in disability studies as a category, for instance mobility disability.

The subcodes Price included under Space were:
- Ambient uncertainty
- Arrangement of bodyminds or objects in a space
- Designated physical or online space
- Metaphorical space
- Mobility in space  (both physical and digital)
- Past or future spaces
- Surveillance in space (both physical and digital)
- Space- Other

Space Subcodes

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

Crip Spacetime

Price posits that harm is an essential part of how space has been constructed in academia and that those who exist in crip spacetime move through spaces that have been built in and through harm and experience harm in spaces that is created through space's interaction with history, relations, objects, and geometries. 

Space and Crip Spacetime

Mobility in Disability Studies

Price notes that space and surveillance often overlap, especially in academia, where academic institutions have historic and thematic ties to carceral institutions.

Intertwining of Space and Surveillance

Some participants noted that there was a sense of risk or vulnerability around disability that came from a sense of general opinion of people within the institution coming from features of the space around them, rather than any single instance of something being said or done to them.

Ambient Uncertainty

Tanya Titchkosky points out that academic spaces that harm disabled people are not often made with the expressed intent of being harmful to disabled people - rather, they have been organized by the possibility of not perceiving how the situations are harmful. In an organized possibility of not perceiving harm - e.g. not having a door large enough for a wheelchair user - the harm is not intended, but the environment is set up in a way where the harm is not readily perceived by those not experiencing it. Price notes by foregrounding harm we can work to undo this organized possibility of not perceiving.

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