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)
Identity Construction and Illness Narratives in Persons with Disabilities
1st Edition
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By Chalotte Glintborg, Manuel L. de la Mata
April 29, 2022
This book investigates how being diagnosed with various disabilities impacts on identity. Once diagnosed with a disability, there is a risk that this label can become the primary status both for the person diagnosed as well as for their family. This reification of the diagnosis can be oppressive ...
Reimagining Disablist and Ableist Violence as Abjection
1st Edition
By Ryan Thorneycroft
April 29, 2022
Drawing upon vivid and harrowing life history narratives of people labelled intellectually disabled, this book examines the ways in which disabled subjects are constituted, regulated, governed, and violated through an account of abjection. Extending interdisciplinary dialogues and approaches, it ...
Women with Disabilities as Agents of Peace, Change and Rights: Experiences from Sri Lanka
1st Edition
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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 ...
Disability Hate Speech: Social, Cultural and Political Contexts
1st Edition
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By Mark Sherry, Terje Olsen, Janikke Solstad Vedeler, John Eriksen
June 30, 2021
This book, the first to specifically focus on disability hate speech, explains what disability hate speech is, why it is important, what laws regulate it (both online and in person) and how it is different from other forms of hate. Unfortunately, disability is often ignored or overlooked in ...
Sexual Citizenship and Disability: Understanding Sexual Support in Policy, Practice and Theory
1st Edition
By Julia Bahner
June 30, 2021
What does ‘sexual citizenship’ mean in practice for people with mobility impairmentswho may need professional support to engage in sexual activity?The book explores this subject through empirical investigation based oncase studies conducted in four countries – Sweden, England, Australia and ...
Disability and Social Representations Theory: The Case of Hearing Loss
1st Edition
By Vinaya Manchaiah, Berth Danermark, Per Germundsson, Pierre Ratinaud
March 31, 2021
Disability and Social Representations Theory provides theoretical and methodological knowledge to uncover the public perception of disabilities. Over the last decade there has been a significant shift from body to environment, and the relation between the two, when understanding the phenomenon of ...
Global Perspectives on Disability Activism and Advocacy: Our Way
1st Edition
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By Karen Soldatic, Kelley Johnson
March 31, 2021
This book explores the diverse ways in which disability activism and advocacy are experienced and practised by people with disabilities and their allies.Contributors to the book explore the very different strategies and campaigns they have used to have their demands for respect, dignity and rights ...
Identity (Re)constructions After Brain Injury: Personal and Family Identity
1st Edition
By Chalotte Glintborg
December 18, 2020
Identity (Re)constructions After Brain Injury: Personal and Family Identity investigates how being diagnosed with acquired brain injury (ABI) impacts identity (re)construction in both adults with ABI and their close relatives. To show how being diagnosed with ABI impacts identity (re)construction, ...
Disability and Discourse Analysis
1st Edition
By Jan Grue
September 30, 2020
Disability studies has engaged with discourse analysis in key works both from the UK and the USA. While the perspectives and analyses of discourse analysis have proved well suited for exploring disability, however, its methods have not been sufficiently developed in a disability studies context. ...
Disability and Social Movements: Learning from Australian Experiences
1st Edition
By Rachel Carling-Jenkins
September 30, 2020
This book provides the reader with a ground-breaking understanding of disability and social movements. By describing how disability is philosophically, historically, and theoretically positioned, Carling-Jenkins is able to then examine disability relationally through an evaluation of the ...
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability: Looking Towards the Future: Volume 2
1st Edition
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By Katie Ellis, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Mike Kent, Rachel Robertson
September 30, 2020
How can a deep engagement with disability studies change our understanding of sociology, literary studies, gender studies, aesthetics, bioethics, social work, law, education, or history? Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability (the companion volume to Manifestos for the Future of Critical ...
Disability and Music Performance
1st Edition
By Alejandro Alberto Téllez Vargas
August 14, 2020
Disability and Music Performance examines discriminatory social practices in music conservatoria, orchestras, music festivals and music competitions, which limit disabled people’s access to music performance at a professional level. Of particular interest are the disabling barriers that musicians ...