Communities of care - with Lorraine Krall McCrary

About this episode

The episode explores the participation of people with intellectual disabilities in political life through the lens of communities of care with guest Lorraine Krall McCrary.

How can we ensure that people with intellectual disabilities participate fully in political life? What lessons can we learn from communities of care in which disabled and non-disabled people live together? And what should be the relationship between local communities of care and wider social and political structures? These are some of the questions we explore in this episode, with Lorraine Krall McCrary . Lorraine is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Wabash College , a liberal arts school in Indiana, and a research associate at St Edmund's College, Cambridge . She has a doctorate in political theory from Georgetown University and previously taught at Washington University in St. Louis and at Villanova University. Lorraine's search brings together disability studies and feminist care ethics, and she also writes about topics in politics and literature, as well as the relationship between the family and politics. Lorraine is currently in the final stages of writing a book based on her most recent research, with the working title C are Communities: Politics in a Different Voice. We discuss the following topics in this episode: Lorraine's work as a political theorist and…

People in this episode

Host: Martin Robb

Guest: Lorraine Krall McCrary

Topics covered

• disability rights
• political theory
• communities of care
• feminist care ethics
• politics and literature

Keywords

• intellectual disabilities
• political participation
• communities of care
• disability studies
• feminist ethics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wabash College, St Edmund's College, Georgetown University, Washington University in St. Louis, Villanova University

Books & works: C are Communities: Politics in a Different Voice

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