Publications and Presentations

  • Preston, Jeffrey. “Battle Lines Drawn: Creative resistance to ableism through online media” Canadian Disability Activism Beyond the Charter: Locating cultural and artistic interventions. Ed. Michael Orsini and Christine Kelly. University of British Columbia Press. 2014.
  • “Fantasizing Disability: Representations of Loss and Limitation in Popular Television and Film.” Paper presented at the Society of Disability Studies Conference, Orlando, 2013
  • “The Political Economy of Disability.” Paper presented at the Society of Disability Studies Conference, Denver, 2012
  • “Corporal Capital: Corporate Bodies in Avatar and RoboCop.” Paper presented at the ESA Conference, City University of New York, New York, 2012
  • Preston, Jeffrey. “Why Organizations Need to be Proactive on Accessibility.” Public Sector Digest. Nov 1 2012. Web.
  • “The Medical Industrial Complex: A Political Economy of Healthcare in Canada.” Paper presented at the Reclaiming Our Bodies and Minds Conference, Ryerson University, Toronto, 2011
  • “Technological Virility, Cyborg Infertility: Adaptation in Top Gun and Born on the 4th of July.” Paper presented at the International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society, Boston, 2008
  • “Digital Freedom: Cyber Athletics and Disability.” Paper presented at the International Society for Science, Technology and Society Conference, Baltimore, 2007
  • “The Myth of Disability: Representations of Disability.” Paper presented to the Illusions of Identity Conference, Western University, London, ON 2006