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Interdisciplinary Disability Studies


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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)

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Intersectional Colonialities Embodied Colonial Violence and Practices of Resistance at the Axis of Disability, Race, Indigeneity, Class, and Gender

Intersectional Colonialities: Embodied Colonial Violence and Practices of Resistance at the Axis of Disability, Race, Indigeneity, Class, and Gender

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Robel Afeworki Abay, Karen Soldatić
May 28, 2024

This book provides a rich synthesis of empirical research and theoretical engagements with questions of disability across different practices of colonialism as historically defined – post/de/anti/settler colonialism. It synthesises, critiques, and expands the boundaries of existing disability ...

Disability, Happiness and the Welfare State Finland and the Nordic Model

Disability, Happiness and the Welfare State: Finland and the Nordic Model

1st Edition

Edited By Hisayo Katsui, Matti T. Laitinen
March 28, 2024

This book looks at disability as an evolving social phenomenon. Disability is created through the interaction between persons with impairments and their environment. Exploring these experiences of persons with disabilities and discussing universality and particularity in our understanding of ...

Dis/ability in Media, Law and History Intersectional, Embodied AND Socially Constructed?

Dis/ability in Media, Law and History: Intersectional, Embodied AND Socially Constructed?

1st Edition

Edited By Micky Lee, Frank Rudy Cooper, Patricia Reeve
January 29, 2024

This book explores how being "disabled" originates in the physical world, social representations and rules, and historical power relations—the interplay of which render bodies "normal" or not. Do parking signs that represent people in wheelchairs as self-propelling influence how we view dis/...

Ubuntu Philosophy and Disabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ubuntu Philosophy and Disabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa

1st Edition

Edited By Oliver Mutanga
November 03, 2023

This book uses Ubuntu philosophy to illuminate the voices of people with disabilities from Sub-Saharan Africa. Disability literature is largely dominated by scholars and studies from the Global North, and these studies are largely informed by Global North theories and concepts. Although disability ...

Disability and Art History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

Disability and Art History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

1st Edition

Edited By Ann Millett-Gallant, Elizabeth Howie
September 25, 2023

This volume analyzes representations of disability in art from antiquity to the twenty-first century, incorporating disability studies scholarship and art historical research and methodology. This book brings these two strands together to provide a comprehensive overview of the intersections ...

Chronic Pain, BDSM and Crip Time

Chronic Pain, BDSM and Crip Time

1st Edition

By Emma Sheppard
July 14, 2023

This book is a critical disability studies examination of the lived experience of chronic pain, engaging with and making a significant contribution to crip theory and the concept of ‘crip time’. Exploring experiences of pain and fatigue for people who live with chronic pain and based on narratives ...

Rethinking Disability and Human Rights Participation, Equality and Citizenship

Rethinking Disability and Human Rights: Participation, Equality and Citizenship

1st Edition

Edited By Inger Marie Lid, Edward Steinfeld, Michael Rembis
June 23, 2023

This book examines the role of disability in the right to political and social participation, an act of citizenship that many disabled people do not enjoy. The disability rights movement does not accept the use of disability to create limits on citizenship, which poses challenges for contemporary ...

Accessibility Denied. Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities

Accessibility Denied. Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities

1st Edition

Edited By Hanna Egard, Kristofer Hansson, David Wästerfors
May 31, 2023

This book explores the societal resistance to accessibility for persons with disabilities, and tries to set an example of how to study exclusion in a time when numerous policies promise inclusion. With 12 chapters organised in three parts, the book takes a comprehensive approach to accessibility, ...

Disability Representation in Film, TV, and Print Media

Disability Representation in Film, TV, and Print Media

1st Edition

Edited By Michael S. Jeffress
May 31, 2023

Using sources from a wide variety of print and digital media, this book discusses the need for ample and healthy portrayals of disability and neurodiversity in the media, as the primary way that most people learn about conditions. It contains 13 newly written chapters drawing on representations of ...

Understanding Disability Throughout History Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Iceland from Settlement to 1936

Understanding Disability Throughout History: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Iceland from Settlement to 1936

1st Edition

Edited By Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir, James G. Rice
May 31, 2023

Understanding Disability Throughout History explores seldom-heard voices from the past by studying the hidden lives of disabled people before the concept of disability existed culturally, socially and administratively. The book focuses on Iceland from the Age of Settlement, traditionally ...

Disability, Intersectional Agency, and Latinx Identity Theorizing LatDisCrit Counterstories

Disability, Intersectional Agency, and Latinx Identity: Theorizing LatDisCrit Counterstories

1st Edition

By Alexis Padilla
January 09, 2023

This interdisciplinary volume links dis/ability and agency by exploring LatDisCrit’s theory and activist emancipatory practice. It uses the author’s experiential and analytical views as a blind brown Latinx engaged scholar and activist from the global south living and struggling in the highly ...

Disability and Labour in the Twentieth Century Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Disability and Labour in the Twentieth Century: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Radu Harald Dinu, Staffan Bengtsson
December 30, 2022

This volume puts disability and labour at the centre of historical enquiry. It offers fresh perspectives on the history of disability and labour in the twentieth century and highlights the need to address the topic beyond regional boundaries. Bringing together historians and disability scholars ...

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