1st Edition

Cultural Stations of Disability A Moment in Discourse

Edited By David Bolt Copyright 2026
226 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In the disability community, which can have multiple meanings in itself, we often experience poignant moments in sociocultural discourse. Our pathways to knowledge and understanding of identity are defined by life’s landmarks, many of which resonate with what thereby become formative figures or artefacts. This mapping of key moments involves recognising, and reflecting upon, cultural stations of... Read more

Introduction – Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse

David Bolt

 

Part I - Bodies at Work

 

Chapter One – ‘It’s to Be about Art, Not about Illness’: Creating Ways of Returning to MS

Claire Penketh

 

Chapter Two – Dury and Dwoskin: Disabled Gazes and De-normalised Sociocultural Archives

Felipe Moreira

 

Chapter Three – The Crip Archives: Performance and Disability in Lorenza Böttner and Elian Chali

Carlos Ayram and Marta Pascua Canelo

 

Chapter Four – The Diary and the Diva: Unpacking Disability in Anne Frank and ‘Alejandro’

Stephanie K. Wheeler

 

Chapter Five – Touching Trust and Finding Two Rhythms: Challenging Hierarchies as Social Activism

Steven J. Walden, Emily Underwood-Lee, Hiroko Uenishi and Gray Hill

 

Part Two – Textual Travels

 

Chapter Six – Hidden in Plain Sight: An Autocritical Exploration of Scent of A Woman and All the Light We Cannot See

Lorenzo Dalvit

 

Chapter Seven – Cultural Stations of Dwarfism: From Little Helpers to Burney Nesbitt

Erin Pritchard

 

Chapter Eight – A New Testament: Changing Positionality, Changing Interpretation

Emma Swai       

 

Chapter Nine – Moments of Identification: Neurodivergent Sociality and Loss in Marvel’s WandaVision

Frantzeska Zerva

 

Chapter Ten – Fiction or Fable: Mental Health Depictions in Children’s Literature

Marnie Mitchell

 

Part III - Personal and Global

 

Chapter Eleven – The Same Old Story: Disability Erasure and Metaphor in Environmental Discourse

Chloë Hughes

 

Chapter Twelve – From Cultural Hauntologies to Political Ontologies: An Autocritical Disability Perspective on Welfare Justice as Disability Justice

Arianna Introna

 

Chapter Thirteen – Performing Femininity: Retelling Stories of the Eyes and the Pure Voice

Zarana Maheshwari

 

Chapter Fourteen – Figure Skating Pace and Olympics Policy: The Problematics of Performance Normativity Cultures in Women’s Sport

Maryam Farahani and Ian Schermbrucker

 

Chapter Fifteen – Radical and Regressive: Real-World and Fictional Depictions of Disabled Superheroes in Popular Culture

Steven J. Walden and Ella Houston

 

Afterword - Our Hard Day at Hartheim

Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege

Biography

David Bolt is Professor of Disability Studies and Interdisciplinarity at Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom.