Routledge International Handbook of Critical Disability Studies

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>