Disability Heritage Participatory and Transformative Engagement

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

1. INTRODUCTION

Manon S. Parry and Leni Van Goidsenhoven

2. ACCESS, INCLUSION AND BEYOND

2.1 Disability Art and Cultural Heritage: Ethical and Political Issues in an Italian Cultural Inclusion Project

Maria Savarese, Domenico Napolitano, Luigi Maria Sicca

2.2. Eugenic Legacies and the Equity of Employment: Curating a “Fair” Deal for D/deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent Museum Professionals

Esther Fox and Emily Goff

2.3. Between Teaching and Society: Sharing Inclusive, Multisensorial Strategies from Users to Architects

Cristina Candito, Ilenio Celoria, Stefano Mantero, Alessandro Meloni, and Aessia Segalerba

2.4 Decolonial Approaches to Disability History and Heritage: Asserting the Disabled Gaze
Jaipreet Virdi

3.  ARCHIVES AND COLLECTIONS

3.1. Accessing and Narrating d/Deaf Heritage in Eastern Europe
Magdalena Zdrodowska, Magdalena Dunaj, Radu Harald Dinu, and Agnieszka Kołodziejczak

3.2. The Heritage of Medical and Welfare Disabilities in Japan: Social Significance and Challenges

Kai Seino

3.3. “Peg Legs”, Black servants, and other “strange varieties of mankind”: Intersections of disability and race in the Hans Würtz Collection

Sebastian Pampuch

3.4. Embracing Filth: Bedpans and the Body at the Winterthur Museum

Jamie Clifford

4.  CREATING CONTEMPORARY HERITAGE

4.1. Access Performance as Disability Heritage: Lettering Club Culture in Amsterdam

Menko Dijksterhuis, Carly Everaert

4.2.  Deaf Culture and Heritage in Performance: Locating Deaf Theatre in Ireland's Cultural Landscape

Alvean Jones

4.3. The Luxury of Memory: Navigating Absences and Gaps in Creating Australia’s First Disability Arts Archive

Hannah Mason, Bree Hadley, Eddie Paterson, Katie Ellis, Janice Rieger, Annie Rolfe

5.  DIFFICULT HISTORIES

5.1. Unveiling the Unseen: Disability Heritage in Religious Archives

Stef Coenen, Iris van Vlimmeren

5.2. Changing Views on Medical Film and Photography: The Van Gehuchten Collection in Twentieth-Century Belgium

Joris Vandendriessche

5.3.  Sites of Conscience, Disability and Heritage: Looking Back to Transform the Future

Linda Steele, Phillippa Carnemolla

5.4. Reading Psychiatric Hospital Cemeteries Madly
Cecilia Rodéhn

6. HERITAGE ACTIVISM

6.1. Heritage as Disability Activism: Embodied Engagement, Crip Hacking, and the Disabled Expert

Niamh Malone, John Schofield, Emma Waterton

6.2. Deaf History, Community and Heritage: A Participatory Research Perspective

Esme Cleall, Nick Palfreyman, Junhui Yang

6.3. History as a Weapon: Disability Archives and the Fight for our Future

Luke Beesley, Ella Clarke, Eline Pollaert

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Biography

Manon S. Parry is Professor of Medical and Nursing History at VU Amsterdam and Associate Professor of American Studies and Public History at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on the uses of history and heritage for health and wellbeing.

 Leni Van Goidsenhoven is Assistant Professor of Critical Disability Studies at the Department of Literary and Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on disability, illness, neurodiversity, and non-normative bodyminds in the arts and literature