Tom Campbell is Associate Professor of Social Theory in the School of Sociology and Social Policy and Deputy Director (Education) of the Leeds Institute for Societal Futures at the University of Leeds, UK, where he is also a member of the Centre for Disability Studies and the Bauman Institute. His work examines the relationship between disablement, social theory and modernity, with a particular focus on the writings of Zygmunt Bauman.
Disablement in the Age of Ambivalence
Educator and social theorist Tom Campbell in conversation around ways in which disability is shaped by the transformation of modern society. His upcoming book Disablement in the Age of Ambivalence mobilises Zygmunt Bauman’s concepts of solid modernity and liquid modernity to examine changing forms of power, exclusion and moral indifference that disabled people face.