The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Disability Studies

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Katie Ellis (Curtin University, Australia) Mike Kent (Curtin University, Australia)

The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Disability Studies

Katie Ellis (Curtin University, Australia), Mike Kent (Curtin University, Australia), Kim Cousins

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Routledge
26 December 2024

Popular culture; Disability: social aspects; Sociology; Personal & public health; Coping with disability

Series: Routledge International Handbooks

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 also 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.

Edited by: Katie Ellis (Curtin University Australia), Mike Kent (Curtin University, Australia), Kim Cousins
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 930g
ISBN: 9780367338572
ISBN 10: 0367338572
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 26 December 2024
Recommended Age: From 17 to 18 years
Audience: Adult education , Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.