1st Edition
The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Disability Studies
Chapter 1 – Introduction
Part I – Representation, art and culture
Chapter 2 – Disability, intersectionality, and decolonial perspectives from the global south
Anna Hickey-Moody and Divya Garg
Chapter 3 – Pandemic art and the intersection of disability and trauma studies
Jennifer McKellar and Katie Ellis
Chapter 4 – Neurodiversity paradigm in art
Jordan Alice Fyfe
Chapter 5 – Reinhabiting, reimagining, and recreating ableist spaces: Embodied criticality in art
Bree Hadley, Eddie Paterson, and Janice Rieger
Chapter 6 – A case of the blues: Music, blindness, and citizenship
Alex Lubet
Chapter 7 – Making the outsider centre-stage: A conversation on leadership opportunities for artists with disabilities in Australian theatre
Dan Graham and Suzanne Ingelbrecht
Chapter 8 – Queer, crip, and anti-colonial theories in popular culture: De/constructing normativity in Disney’s The Owl House
Chloe T. Rattray and Amy Shields Dobson
Chapter 9 – Articulating the self: Disability rhetorics, autobiographical comics, and the case of David Small’s Stitches
Dale Jacobs and Jay Dolmage
Chapter 10 – Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer: Not a supercrip
Amber E. George
Chapter 11 – Force of nature, forced by society: Rethinking Shakespeare’s Richard III
Chloe T. Rattray and Suzanne Inglebrecht
Chapter 12 – Precarity and the global dispossession of indigeneity through representations of disability
David T. Mitchell
Part II – Media, Technology, and Communication
Chapter 13 – Neurodiversity and the internet: Challenging the dominant autism narratives in Indonesia
Hersinta
Chapter 14 – Centring disabled Americans’ writings about the Covid-19 pandemic: A critical disability studies analysis
Emily Brooks and Beth Haller
Chapter 15 – Indigenous sign languages in Australia
Cassandra Wright-Dole
Chapter 16 – A comparative study of Australia and Brazil: Approaches to the UNCRPD and digital access
Matheus Ferreira
Chapter 17 – Vision Australia’s use of podcasts
Saadia Ahmed
Chapter 18 – Transhuman liminalities and the othered body: Exploring disability and superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Chapter 19 – Redefining access in the smart city
Kathryn Locke
Chapter 20 – Disability and the social construction of technology
Kai-Ti Kao
Chapter 21 – Take a selfie: paralympic athletes on social media
Tatiane Hilgemberg
Chapter 22 – Disability’s right to the smart city: A manifesto for the emergent future
Kuansong Victor Zhuang and Gerard Goggin
Chapter 23 – Disability and digital public health communication: Gamification and accessibility
Sian Tomkinson
Part III - Activism and the Life Course
Chapter 24 – Inclusion without access: Policing encounters with deafness
Elaine Cagulada and Tanya Titchkosky
Chapter 25 – Disability and activism in Oman
Najma Al Zidjaly
Chapter 26 – Invisible disability, Instagram, and health communications
Stephanie Mantilla, Jennifer Smith-Merry, and Gerard Goggin
Chapter 27 – Singing from the same song-sheet: Harnessing the human rights framework through critical disability studies to achieve inclusive education
Catia Malaquias
Chapter 28 – Disability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit): Past, present and future – an overview
Beth A. Ferri, David J. Connor, and Subini A. Annamma
Chapter 29 – Liveable disabilities: Life courses and opportunity structures across time in Sweden
Lotta Vikström, Josefine Wälivaara, and Karin Ljuslinder
Chapter 30 – Autocriticality and interdisciplinarity: Personal-professional applications of the tripartite model of disability
David Bolt
Chapter 31 – Speculative net zero from the margins
Philip Ely, Katie Ellis, Natarsha Bates, Nathon Webber, and Jordan Alice Fyfe
Chapter 32 – ‘Doing’ disability research, ethically: A self-critique of a participatory disability research project
Tim Pitman
Biography
Katie Ellis is a Professor in Internet Studies and Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University.
Mike Kent is a Professor and Head of School for Media, Creative Arts and Social Enquiry at Curtin University, Australia.
Kim Cousins is a Research Assistant and Sessional Academic with the Centre for Culture and Technology and the School of Media, Creative Arts & Social Inquiry at Curtin University.






