A multidisciplinary approach to different models and approaches to disability; key impairment groups engagement; activism; disability studies and its interaction with other disciplines; and how disability studies intersects with ethnicity, sexuality, gender, childhood and ageing.
New perspectives on disability identity; historical constructions of (dis)ability; the geography of disability; the spiritual nature of disability; governmentality and disability rights; neurodiversity and challenges to medicalized constructions of autism; and questions of citizenship and participation in political and sexual economies.
Addresses the theoretical landscape of interdependency and independence, the human-animal relationship, and issues around the construction or materiality of gender, the body, and sexuality. Explores the underlying biases of medical and scientific experiments and the binary of the sound and the diseased mind. Addresses physical disabilities, pain, mental disability, and invisible disabilities.
Explores Deaf identity in different contexts; discuses the roles that economics, location, race, and culture; showcases activism organized across differences; and addresses the relationships between Deaf Studies and Disability Studies.
Explores postcolonial theory, which looks at issues of power, economics, politics, religion, and culture and how these elements work in relation to colonial supremacy. This handbook challenges oppression, voicelessness, stereotyping, undermining, neo-colonization, and postcolonization and bridges binary debate between global North and the global South.