As well as being fields of study Disability and Mad Studies are also practices or ways of being in the world, praxis disciplines (as I describe them earlier) that demand the practical utility of the knowledge we produce as well as practical application and action. We cannot interrogate ableism and disablism without a continuing reflexive examination of the ways in which we ‘do’ Disability and Mad Studies. As Beresford and Russo put it ‘the ‘how’ of Mad Studies is as important as its whys and whats’ (2016:273). That is, how we seek to teach, to research, to collaborate with and to serve disabled and mad people, colleagues, allies, activists, students and practitioners is as significant as the intellectual project underpinning both fields.
Hannah Morgan, "Disability Studies and Mad Studies."
