The project, entitled “Crip Time, Law and the Duty to Accommodate: Toward a Legal-Materialist Understanding of the Lives of Workers with Disabilities” draws its name from a concept arising from disabled experience – “crip time” – that addresses the ways that disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent people experience time (and space) differently than able-bodied people.
Building on his past research on disability rights as well as his proven expertise in disability studies, Professor Malhotra’s new project will examine the barriers faced by workers with disabilities in the modern Canadian workplace, with a particular focus on their day-to-day experiences with disability accommodation and their conceptions of time. Ultimately the project aims to develop best practices that employers and disability organizations can readily implement to benefit people with disabilities and Canadian society as a whole.
