1st Edition
The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Disability Studies
Disability impacts everyone in some way. Approximately 10-20% of the world’s population live with disability, and the associated issues affect not just these individuals but their friends, family and colleagues. When looking at it this way, it is strange that disability continues to be thought of as an anomaly — either as a medical problem located in a damaged body or something that exists exclusively outside the body, in a society that takes little account of non-normative bodies.
Critical disability studies both questions these existing notions of disability and interrogates how they have become a part of the academic attitude towards the field. As the first comprehensive handbook on critical disability studies, this volume provides an authoritative overview of the subject. Including 32 chapters written by established scholars and emerging, next-generation researchers it also includes contributions from activists, writers, and practitioners from the global north and the global south.
Divided into three parts: Representation, Art and Culture; Media, Technology and Communication; and Activism and the Life Course, it offers discussions on core critical disability studies topics including the social model, technology studies, trauma studies, representation and queer theory, as well as ground-breaking work on emerging and cutting-edge areas such as neurodiversity and critical approaches in the Middle East, United States, Australia and Europe.
It is required reading for all academics and students working in not just critical disability studies but sociology, digital accessibility and inclusion, health and social care, and social and public policy more broadly.
Chapter One – Introduction
Part I – Representation, Art and Culture
Chapter Two – Disability, intersectionality and decolonial perspectives from the Global South
Anna Hickey-Moody and Divya Garg
Chapter Three – Pandemic art and the intersection of disability and trauma studies
Jennifer McKellar and Katie Ellis
Chapter Four – Neurodiversity paradigm in art
Jordan Alice Fyfe
Chapter Five – Reinhabiting, reimagining, and recreating ableist spaces: Embodied criticality in art
Bree Hadley, Eddie Paterson and Janice Rieger
Chapter Six – A case of the blues: Music, blindness, and citizenship
Alex Lubet
Chapter Seven – Making the outsider centre-stage: A conversation on leadership opportunities for artists with disabilities in Australian theatre
Dan Graham and Suzanne Ingelbrecht
Chapter Eight – 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 Nine – Articulating the self: Disability rhetorics, autobiographical comics and the case of David Small’s Stitches
Dale Jacobs and Jay Dolmage
Chapter Ten – Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: Not a supercrip
Amber E George
Chapter Eleven – Force of nature, forced by society: Rethinking Shakespeare’s Richard III
Chloe T Rattray and Suzanne Inglebrecht
Chapter Twelve – Precarity and the global dispossession of indigeneity through representations of disability
David T Mitchell
Part II – Media, Technology and Communication
Chapter Thirteen – Neurodiversity and the internet: Challenging the dominant autism narratives in Indonesia
Hersinta
Chapter Fourteen – Centering disabled Americans’ writings about the Covid-19 pandemic: A Critical Disability Studies analysis
Emily Brooks and Beth Haller
Chapter Fifteen – Indigenous sign languages in Australia
Cassandra Wright-Dole
Chapter Sixteen – A comparative study of Australia and Brazil: approaches to the UNCRPD and digital access
Matheus Ferreira
Chapter Seventeen – Vision Australia’s use of podcasts
Saadia Ahmed
Chapter Eighteen – Transhuman liminalities and the othered body: Exploring disability and superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Chapter Nineteen – Redefining access in the smart city
Kathryn Locke
Chapter Twenty – Disability and the Social Construction of Technology
Kai-Ti Kao
Chapter Twenty-one – Take a selfie: Paralympic athletes on social media
Tatiane Hilgemberg
Chapter Twenty-two – Disability’s right to the Smart City: A manifesto for the emergent future
Kuansong Victor Zhuang and Gerard Goggin
Chapter Twenty-three – Disability and digital public health communication: Gamification and accessibility
Sian Tomkinson
Part III - Activism and the Life Course
Chapter Twenty-four – Inclusion without access: Policing encounters with Deafness
Elaine Cagulada and Tanya Titchkosky
Chapter Twenty-five – Disability and activism in Oman
Najma Al Zidjaly
Chapter Twenty-six – Invisible disability, Instagram, and health communications
Stephanie Mantilla, Jennifer Smith-Merry and Gerard Goggin
Chapter Twenty-seven – Singing from the same song-sheet: Harnessing the human rights framework through critical disability studies to achieve inclusive education
Catia Malaquias
Chapter Twenty-eight – Disability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit): Past, Present and Future – an overview
Beth A Ferri, David J Connor and Subini A Annamma
Chapter Twenty-nine – Liveable disabilities: Life courses and opportunity structures across time in Sweden
Lotta Vikström, Josefine Wälivaara and Karin Ljuslinder
Chapter Thirty – Autocriticality and interdisciplinarity: Personal-professional applications of the tripartite model of disability
David Bolt
Chapter Thirty-one – Speculative Net Zero from the margins
Philip Ely, Katie Ellis, Natarsha Bates, Nathon Webber and Jordan Fyfe
Chapter Thirty-two – ‘Doing’ disability research, ethically: A self-critique of a participatory disability research project
Tim Pitman
Biography
Katie Ellis is Professor in Internet Studies and Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University.
Mike Kent is Associate 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.
