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 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 ...
Disability and Art History
1st Edition
Edited
By Ann Millett-Gallant, Elizabeth Howie
November 22, 2017
This is the first book of its kind to feature interdisciplinary art history and disability studies scholarship. Art historians have traditionally written about images of figures with impairments and artworks by disabled artists, without integrating disability studies scholarship, while many ...
Disability and Qualitative Inquiry: Methods for Rethinking an Ableist World
1st Edition
By Ronald J. Berger, Laura S. Lorenz
November 22, 2017
This groundbreaking text makes an intervention on behalf of disability studies into the broad field of qualitative inquiry. Ronald Berger and Laura Lorenz introduce readers to a range of issues involved in doing qualitative research on disabilities by bringing together a collection of scholarly ...
Youth and Disability: A Challenge to Mr Reasonable
1st Edition
By Jenny Slater
November 22, 2017
In this ground-breaking book, Jenny Slater uses the lens of ’the reasonable’ to explore how normative understandings of youth, dis/ability and the intersecting identities of gender and sexuality impact upon the lives of young dis/abled people. Although youth and disability have separately been ...
Communication, Sport and Disability: The Case of Power Soccer
1st Edition
By Michael S. Jeffress
March 29, 2017
Sports are ubiquitous in American society, and given their prominence in the culture, it is easy to understand how most youth in the United States face pressure to participate in organized sports. But what does this mean for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who live with one or more physical ...
Disability, Human Rights and the Limits of Humanitarianism
1st Edition
By Michael Gill, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
October 19, 2016
Disability studies scholars and activists have long criticized and critiqued so-termed ’charitable’ approaches to disability where the capitalization of individual disabled bodies to invoke pity are historically, socially, and politically circumscribed by paternalism. Disabled individuals have long...