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

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

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).

Ambient Uncertainty and Time

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

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

Time Subcodes

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

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. 

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