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

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.

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.

Organized Possibility of Not Perceiving

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

Price through use of initial coding, and refining of those codes through axial coding, arrived at four broad themes of Crip Spacetime: Space, Time, Cost, and Accompaniment. These four themes were revised as the specific codes they arose from were revised.

Themes of Crip Spacetime

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

Crip Spacetime

The iterative process of reviewing interviews and, in turn, revising and reviewing coding schemas is known as taking a constant comparative approach.

Constant Comparative Approach

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

Space Subcodes

The subcodes Price included under Cost were:
- Budget 
- Economic cost
- Emotional cost
- Missing things and losses
- Negotiating for accommodations or access
- Self-scrutiny
- Trade-offs
- Use of personal resources
- Who pays for what
- Cost-Other

Cost Subcodes

The subcodes Price included under Accompaniment were:
- Being believed or not believed
- Being ignored
- Being understood or misunderstood
- Collaborating on an access issue or question
- "Comforting" another person
- Educating someone else about disability or access, or being educated about disability or access
- Experiencing slurs, belittling, or minimizing
- Identifying shared experiences
- Forming relations with technologies or objects
- Trusting another person or people
- Working with a professional" interpreter, personal assistant, etc.
- Working with a nonprofessional: friend doing personal assistant work, spouse helping you navigate campus, etc.
- Accompaniment -Other.

Accompaniment Subcodes

Because of the limitations of the Disabled Academics Study Price notes that there should be a fifth theme labeled More to note that more dimensions of Crip Spacetime could emerge in future research. 

Learn Before

Related

Learn After