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, Gender and Violence over the Life Course: Global Perspectives and Human Rights Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Sonali Shah, Caroline Bradbury-Jones
August 14, 2020
This is the first book to explore the interplay of disability, gender and violence over the life course from researcher, practitioner and survivor perspectives. It gives due weight to the accounts of disabled children and adults who have survived institutional or individual violence, evidencing ...
International Perspectives on Teaching with Disability: Overcoming Obstacles and Enriching Lives
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Jeffress
August 14, 2020
Efforts to reduce discrimination and increase diversity on campuses, coupled with shrinking budgets causing administrators to devote more resources toward recruiting and retaining students with disabilities, are fuelling an explosion of research in the area of inclusive education. An important ...
Disability and Neoliberal State Formations
1st Edition
By Karen Soldatic
June 30, 2020
Disability and Neoliberal State Formations explores the trajectory of neoliberalism in Australia and its impact on the lives of Australians living with disability, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It examines the emergence, intensification and normalisation of neoliberalism ...
Film, Comedy, and Disability: Understanding Humour and Genre in Cinematic Constructions of Impairment and Disability
1st Edition
By Alison Wilde
June 30, 2020
Comedy and humour have frequently played a key role in disabled people’s lives, for better or for worse. Comedy has also played a crucial part in constructing cultural representations of disability and impairments, contributing to the formation and maintenance of cultural attitudes towards ...
Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability Studies: Volume 1
1st Edition
Edited
By Katie Ellis, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Mike Kent, Rachel Robertson
June 30, 2020
This collection identifies the key tensions and conflicts being debated within the field of critical disability studies and provides both an outline of the field in its current form and offers manifestos for its future direction. Traversing a number of disciplines from science and technology ...
Visual Impairment and Work: Experiences of Visually Impaired People
1st Edition
By Sally French
June 30, 2020
This book traces the development of paid work for visually impaired people in the UK from the 18th century to the present day. It gives a voice to visually impaired people to talk about their working lives and documents the history of employment from their experience, an approach which is severely ...
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 ...