Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
About the Book Series
Disability studies has made great strides in exploring power and the body. This series extends the interdisciplinary dialogue between disability studies and other fields by asking how disability studies can influence a particular field. It will show how a deep engagement with disability studies changes our understanding of the following fields: sociology, literary studies, gender studies, bioethics, social work, law, education, or history. This ground-breaking series identifies both the practical and theoretical implications of such an interdisciplinary dialogue and challenges people in disability studies as well as other disciplinary fields to critically reflect on their professional praxis in terms of theory, practice, and methods.
International Editor: Karen Soldatić
Founding Editor: Mark Sherry (2010-2021)
Disability and Labour in the Twentieth Century: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Radu Harald Dinu, Staffan Bengtsson
August 26, 2024
This volume puts disability and labour at the centre of historical enquiry. It offers fresh perspectives on the history of disability and labour in the twentieth century and highlights the need to address the topic beyond regional boundaries. Bringing together historians and disability scholars ...
Dis/ability in Media, Law and History: Intersectional, Embodied AND Socially Constructed?
1st Edition
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By Micky Lee, Frank Rudy Cooper, Patricia Reeve
January 29, 2024
This book explores how being "disabled" originates in the physical world, social representations and rules, and historical power relations—the interplay of which render bodies "normal" or not. Do parking signs that represent people in wheelchairs as self-propelling influence how we view dis/...
Disability and Art History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
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By Ann Millett-Gallant, Elizabeth Howie
September 25, 2023
This volume analyzes representations of disability in art from antiquity to the twenty-first century, incorporating disability studies scholarship and art historical research and methodology. This book brings these two strands together to provide a comprehensive overview of the intersections ...
Accessibility Denied. Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities
1st Edition
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By Hanna Egard, Kristofer Hansson, David Wästerfors
May 31, 2023
This book explores the societal resistance to accessibility for persons with disabilities, and tries to set an example of how to study exclusion in a time when numerous policies promise inclusion. With 12 chapters organised in three parts, the book takes a comprehensive approach to accessibility, ...
Disability Representation in Film, TV, and Print Media
1st Edition
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By Michael S. Jeffress
May 31, 2023
Using sources from a wide variety of print and digital media, this book discusses the need for ample and healthy portrayals of disability and neurodiversity in the media, as the primary way that most people learn about conditions. It contains 13 newly written chapters drawing on representations of ...
Understanding Disability Throughout History: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Iceland from Settlement to 1936
1st Edition
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By Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir, James G. Rice
May 31, 2023
Understanding Disability Throughout History explores seldom-heard voices from the past by studying the hidden lives of disabled people before the concept of disability existed culturally, socially and administratively. The book focuses on Iceland from the Age of Settlement, traditionally ...
Disability, Intersectional Agency, and Latinx Identity: Theorizing LatDisCrit Counterstories
1st Edition
By Alexis Padilla
January 09, 2023
This interdisciplinary volume links dis/ability and agency by exploring LatDisCrit’s theory and activist emancipatory practice. It uses the author’s experiential and analytical views as a blind brown Latinx engaged scholar and activist from the global south living and struggling in the highly ...
International Disability Rights Advocacy: Languages of Moral Knowledge and Institutional Critique
1st Edition
By Daniel Pateisky
September 26, 2022
This book provides insight into the globally interlinked disability rights community and its political efforts today. By analysing what disability rights activism contributes to a global power apparatus of disability-related knowledge, it demonstrates how disability advocacy influences the way we ...
Critical Disability Studies and the Disabled Child: Unsettling Distinctions
1st Edition
By Harriet Cooper
June 13, 2022
This book examines the relationship between contemporary cultural representations of disabled children on the one hand, and disability as a personal experience of internalised oppression on the other. In focalising this debate through an exploration of the politically and emotionally charged figure...
Dwarfism, Spatiality and Disabling Experiences
1st Edition
By Erin Pritchard
May 30, 2022
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the social and spatial experiences of people with dwarfism, an impairment that results in a person being no taller than 4' 10". This book engages with the concept that dwarfism’s most prominent feature – body size and shape – can form the basis of social ...
Disability and Citizenship Studies
1st Edition
By Marie Sépulchre
April 29, 2022
Focusing on the case of disability, this book examines what happens when previously marginalised individuals obtain the legal recognition of their equal citizenship rights but cannot fully enjoy these rights because of structural inequality. Bringing together disability and citizenship studies, it...
Disability, Globalization and Human Rights
1st Edition
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By Hisayo Katsui, Hisayo Katsui
April 29, 2022
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has facilitated the understanding that disability is both a human rights and development issue. In order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, the focus on disability inclusion has become increasingly important in the ...