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)
Disability, Happiness and the Welfare State: Finland and the Nordic Model
1st Edition
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By Hisayo Katsui, Matti T. Laitinen
July 31, 2025
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 ...
Ubuntu Philosophy and Disabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa
1st Edition
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By Oliver Mutanga
April 14, 2025
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 ...
Rethinking Disability and Human Rights: Participation, Equality and Citizenship
1st Edition
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By Inger Marie Lid, Edward Steinfeld, Michael Rembis
November 29, 2024
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 ...
Chronic Pain, BDSM and Crip Time
1st Edition
By Emma Sheppard
November 28, 2024
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 ...
Disability and Labour in the Twentieth Century: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Radu Harald Dinu, Staffan Bengtsson
August 26, 2024
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 ...
Dis/ability in Media, Law and History: Intersectional, Embodied AND Socially Constructed?
1st Edition
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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/...
Disability and Art History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
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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 ...
Accessibility Denied. Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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
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 ...
International Disability Rights Advocacy: Languages of Moral Knowledge and Institutional Critique
1st Edition
By Daniel Pateisky
September 26, 2022
This book provides insight into the globally interlinked disability rights community and its political efforts today. By analysing what disability rights activism contributes to a global power apparatus of disability-related knowledge, it demonstrates how disability advocacy influences the way we ...