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)
Women with Disabilities as Agents of Peace, Change and Rights: Experiences from Sri Lanka
1st Edition
Edited
By Karen Soldatic, Dinesha Samararatne
April 29, 2022
Drawing on rich empirical work emerging from core conflict regions within the island nation of Sri Lanka, this book illustrates the critical role that women with disabilities play in post-armed conflict rebuilding and development. This pathbreaking book shows the critical role that women with ...
A Sociological Approach to Acquired Brain Injury and Identity
1st Edition
By Jonathan Harvey
September 11, 2019
Inspired by the author’s personal experience of sustaining acquired brain injury (ABI), this path-breaking book explores the (re)construction of identity after ABI. It offers a way of understanding ABI through a social scientific lens, promoting an understanding that is generated through close ...
Organizing the Blind: The case of ONCE in Spain
1st Edition
By Roberto Garvía
August 27, 2019
This book is a case study which narrates the history of the National Organization of the Spanish Blind (ONCE), established in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Contrary to other affluent countries where most blind people live on welfare benefits, the Spanish blind enjoy full employment. ...
The Disabled Child's Participation Rights
1st Edition
By Anne-Marie Callus, Ruth Farrugia
June 07, 2019
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is the only UN treaty to date in which the people who are its target, that is disabled people, were actively involved in its drafting and the only one which requires the active participation of disabled people in its ...
A Feminist Ethnography of Secure Wards for Women with Learning Disabilities: Locked Away
1st Edition
By Rebecca Fish
May 23, 2019
What is life like for women with learning disabilities detained in a secure unit? This book presents a unique ethnographic study conducted in a contemporary institution in England. Rebecca Fish takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on both the social model of disability and intersectional ...
Disability and Postsocialism
1st Edition
By Teodor Mladenov
May 21, 2019
In the decades following the collapse of state socialism at the end of 1980s, disabled people in Central and Eastern Europe endured economic marginalisation, cultural devaluation and political disempowerment. Some of the mechanisms producing these injustices were inherited from state socialism, ...
Child Pain, Migraine, and Invisible Disability
1st Edition
By Susan Honeyman
April 15, 2019
In the twenty-first century there is increasing global recognition of pain relief as a basic human right. However, as Susan Honeyman argues in this new take on child pain and invisible disability, such a belief has historically been driven by adult, ideological needs, whereas the needs of children ...
Disability and Rurality: Identity, Gender and Belonging
1st Edition
Edited
By Karen Soldatic, Kelley Johnson
January 23, 2019
This is the first book to explore how far disability challenges dominant understandings of rurality, identity, gender and belonging within the rural literature. The book focuses particularly on the ways disabled people give, and are given, meaning and value in relation to ethical rural ...
Disability, Society and Assistive Technology
1st Edition
By Bodil Ravneberg, Sylvia Söderström
January 23, 2019
The provision of assistive technology is an important individual and collective service of the welfare state. The state plays a significant role towards linking users and products, and the matching of devices and users is both a science and an art. However, many people feel it is stigmatising to ...
Pedagogy, Disability and Communication: Applying Disability Studies in the Classroom
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael S. Jeffress
January 23, 2019
Research has long substantiated the fact that living with a disability creates significant and complex challenges to identity negotiation, the practice of communication, and the development of interpersonal relationships. Furthermore, individuals without disabilities often lack the knowledge and ...
Sport and the Female Disabled Body
1st Edition
By Elisabet Apelmo
January 22, 2018
This path-breaking book analyses the experiences of young sporting women with physical impairments. Taking phenomenology as a point of departure, Elisabet Apelmo explores how the young women handle living with a body which, on the one hand, is viewed as deviant – the disabled body – and on the ...
The Fantasy of Disability: Images of Loss in Popular Culture
1st Edition
By Jeffrey Preston
January 22, 2018
What are the unconscious fantasies circulating in representations of disability? What role do these fantasies play in defining the condition of disability? What can these fantasies teach us about human vulnerability writ large? The Fantasy of Disability explores how popular culture texts, such as ...