In Understanding the Boundary between Disability Studies and Special Education through Consilience, Self-Study, and Radical Love, the authors explore what it means to engage in boundary work at the intersection of traditional special education systems and critical disability studies in education. The book consists of fifteen groundbreaking accounts that challenge dominant medicalized discourses about what it means to exist within and around special education systems that create space for new conceptions of what it means to teach, lead, learn, and exist within a conciliatory space driven by radical love and disability justice principles. The book pushes readers to consider how their own personal, professional and programmatic future transformational actions can be driven by disruption and the desire for freedom from the hegemony of traditional special education and White and Ability supremacy.

Contributions by: Brittany Aronson, Christina A. Bosch, David J. Connor, M. Nickie Coomer, Danielle M. Cowley, Deborah J. Gallagher, JPB Gerald, David I. Hernández-Saca, Shehreen Iqtadar, Ashley Cartell Johnson, Gloshanda Lawyer, Amanda L. Miller, Martin Musengi, Lydia Ocasio-Stoutenburg, Holly Pearson, Amy J. Petersen, Ganiva Reyes, Sarah Schlessinger, Chelsea Stinson, Jane Strauss, Maria T. Timberlake, Sarah Arvey Tov, Ananí M. Vasquez, Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides