The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. The background is solid white. At the top of the cover, a black and white drawing that appears to be of some kind of material texture. Below this, the names of the editors “Anne Waldschmidt, Hanjo Berressem, Moritz Ingerwersen (Eds.)” all in small, black capitals.
Below this, a red line. Below this, the title “Culture – Theory – Disability” in large, red writing.
Immediately below this, the subtitle “Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies” in small, black writing.
At the bottom of the book, it reads “[transcript] DisabilityStudies”, with “[transcript]”, the “D” in “Disability” and the first “S” in “Studies” all in bold. /end]

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Content Warning:

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Summary:

Which theoretical and methodological approaches of contemporary cultural criticism resonate within the field of disability studies? What can cultural studies gain by incorporating disability more fully into its toolbox for critical analysis? Culture – Theory – Disability features contributions by leading international cultural disability studies scholars which are complemented with a diverse range of responses from across the humanities spectrum.
This essential volume encourages the problematization of disability in connection with critical theories of literary and cultural representation, aesthetics, politics, science and technology, sociology, and philosophy.
It includes essays by Lennard J. Davis, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Dan Goodley, Robert McRuer and Margrit Shildrick.

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Notes:

This book is open access.

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Archivist Comments:

Full disclosure, I’ve only read one essay in this book in its entirety. I’ve flicked through the rest of them, but I was only looking for a specific thing at the time. Also, I’ve seen some things which would suggest this book was published in 2014 originally, but, I can only find information on editions from 2017.

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