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)
The Influence of Steven J. Taylor on Disabled Lives and Disability Studies
1st Edition
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By Rannveig Traustadóttir, Nirmala Erevelles, Zana Marie Lutfiyya, Rachael A. Zubal-Ruggieri, Michael F. Giangreco, Pamela M. Walker
October 26, 2026
This book fills an existing gap in the history of the foundations and early developments of disability studies through analyzing the life and work of Steven J. Taylor, founder and chair of the first formal Disability Studies Program at Syracuse University, but who had already been teaching ...
Understanding Disability in Central and East Europe: Performing Inbetweenness
1st Edition
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By Magdalena Zdrodowska, Ina Dimitrova, Monika Kwaśniewska-Mikuła
October 19, 2026
This collection brings together activism-informed disability research conducted both IN and FROM the region by scholars and activists representing local communities and languages. Disability in Central and Eastern Europe is situated between ethnic and national identities and languages, socialist/...
Disability and the Making of Place
1st Edition
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By Claire Edwards, Edward Hall, Andrew Power, Robert Wilton
September 14, 2026
This edited collection advances critical scholarship about the complex interrelationships between disability and place. Developing theorising around place-making as a relational, everyday practice, it draws on disabled people’s lived experiences to explore the myriad ways in which they encounter, ...
Youth, Disability, and Resistance: Producing Change through Activism and Social Movements
1st Edition
By Miro Griffiths
August 27, 2026
Youth, Disability, and Resistance offers a powerful account of how young disabled people across Europe are reshaping disability activism and reimagining the future of social change. Drawing on rich empirical research, Miro Griffiths examines why activism matters to young disabled people, what ...
An Arts-Based Inquiry of Sibling Disability: Stealing from My Sister’s Plate
1st Edition
By Linnéa E. Franits
July 20, 2026
This book examines texts and other artistic products rendered by siblings of individuals with disabilities in order to interrogate the impact of disability on the identity of non-disabled siblings. This includes an arts-based analysis of the author’s own experiences as the sister of a woman with ...
Critical Perspectives on Disability Representation and Inclusion in Media
1st Edition
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By Michael S. Jeffress
July 07, 2026
Drawing on a wide variety of print and digital media sources, this book discusses the need for inclusion and authentic portrayals of disability and neurodiversity in the media, as the primary way that most people learn about them. Containing 15 newly written chapters drawing on representations of ...
Care and Disability: Relational Representations
1st Edition
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By D. Christopher Gabbard, Talia Schaffer
May 22, 2026
Care and Disability is an edited collection offering critical perspectives on representations of care and disability, by emerging and established scholars across multiple periods, regions, and genres of literary studies. The authors demonstrate the range of fields in which care ethics can elucidate...
Visual Discourses of Disability: Interpreting Press Images of Disability from a Discourse-Semiotic Perspective
1st Edition
By Pei Soo Ang, Siang Lee Yeo
March 18, 2026
This book demonstrates how the visual elements within news images of disability orchestrate and evoke social meanings about disability and disabled persons. It creates a Visual Discourses of Disability (ViDD) framework to delineate what and how the visualization of disability communicates ideas and...
Deaf People, Injustice and Reconciliation: Signed Memories
1st Edition
By Hisayo Katsui, Maija Koivisto, Pauli Rautiainen, Niina Meriläinen, Suvi-Maaria Tepora-Niemi, Merja Tarvainen, Päivi Raino, Heikki Hiilamo
January 30, 2026
This book focuses on injustices that have taken place to deaf people and the sign language community in Finland from 1900. For decades, memories and stories about past injustices have been passed down from one generation to another among deaf people and the sign language community. This research ...
Clashing Vulnerabilities, Disability and Conflict
1st Edition
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By Don Kulick, Simo Vehmas
November 10, 2025
This book is about how we might think about vulnerability—what it is and how it operates—by looking at cases where different kinds of vulnerabilities clash. Disability is often portrayed as a vulnerability in itself, and disabled people are often labelled a prototypical “vulnerable group”. ...
Activating Arts to Understand Disability in Africa: Inclusive Explanations
1st Edition
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By Charlotte Baker, Elvis Imafidon, Kobus Moolman, Emelda Ngufor Samba
August 29, 2025
While Disability Studies has become more diversified in recent years, contemporary debates still favour the Northern Hemisphere, ignoring the lived experience of disabled people in much of the global South. Few theoretical studies pay sufficient attention to the range of beliefs and attitudes ...
Intersectional Colonialities: Embodied Colonial Violence and Practices of Resistance at the Axis of Disability, Race, Indigeneity, Class, and Gender
1st Edition
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By Robel Afeworki Abay, Karen Soldatić
August 29, 2025
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 ...