Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
About the Book Series
Disability studies has made great strides in exploring power and the body. This series extends the interdisciplinary dialogue between disability studies and other fields by asking how disability studies can influence a particular field. It will show how a deep engagement with disability studies changes our understanding of the following fields: sociology, literary studies, gender studies, bioethics, social work, law, education, or history. This ground-breaking series identifies both the practical and theoretical implications of such an interdisciplinary dialogue and challenges people in disability studies as well as other disciplinary fields to critically reflect on their professional praxis in terms of theory, practice, and methods.
International Editor: Karen Soldatić
Founding Editor: Mark Sherry (2010-2021)
Histories of Disability and Art Education: Intersectional and International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Claire Penketh, Alice Wexler
March 11, 2027
Histories of Art Education & Disability – intersectional and international perspectives brings a range of international and intersectional and Indigenous perspectives to study the historical relationship between disability and art education in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Based on the...
Neurodiversity in Contemporary Memoirs
1st Edition
By Amrutha Sivadasan
March 05, 2027
Neurodiversity in Contemporary Memoirs investigates neurodevelopmental differences, namely autism, ADHD, and dyslexia, through an interdisciplinary lens that blends together intersectionality, phenomenology, and legal studies. The book explores five 21st Century memoirs as works of thought as well ...
Intersectional Disability: Race, Gender, Pain, and the Politics of Invisibility
1st Edition
By Abigal Muchecheti
December 16, 2026
Intersectional Disability argues that disability cannot be adequately theorised without explicit attention to race, gender, pain, epistemic injustice, and structural unbelievability. While disability studies, intersectionality, and Critical Race Theory have transformed understandings of inequality,...
Activating Arts to Understand Disability in Africa: Inclusive Explanations
1st Edition
Edited
By Charlotte Baker, Elvis Imafidon, Kobus Moolman, Emelda Ngufor Samba
November 24, 2026
While Disability Studies has become more diversified in recent years, contemporary debates still favour the Northern Hemisphere, ignoring the lived experience of disabled people in much of the global South. Few theoretical studies pay sufficient attention to the range of beliefs and attitudes ...
The Influence of Steven J. Taylor on Disabled Lives and Disability Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Rannveig Traustadóttir, Nirmala Erevelles, Zana Marie Lutfiyya, Rachael A. Zubal-Ruggieri, Michael F. Giangreco, Pamela M. Walker
November 12, 2026
This book fills an existing gap in the history of the foundations and early developments of disability studies through analyzing the life and work of Steven J. Taylor, founder and chair of the first formal Disability Studies Program at Syracuse University, but who had already been teaching ...
Understanding Disability in Central and Eastern Europe: Performing Inbetweenness
1st Edition
Edited
By Magdalena Zdrodowska, Ina Dimitrova, Monika Kwaśniewska-Mikuła
September 29, 2026
This collection brings together activism-informed disability research conducted both IN and FROM the region by scholars and activists representing local communities and languages. Disability in Central and Eastern Europe is situated between ethnic and national identities and languages, socialist/...
Disability and the Making of Place
1st Edition
Edited
By Claire Edwards, Edward Hall, Andrew Power, Robert Wilton
September 14, 2026
This edited collection advances critical scholarship about the complex interrelationships between disability and place. Developing theorising around place-making as a relational, everyday practice, it draws on disabled people’s lived experiences to explore the myriad ways in which they encounter, ...
Youth, Disability, and Resistance: Producing Change through Activism and Social Movements
1st Edition
By Miro Griffiths
August 27, 2026
Youth, Disability, and Resistance offers a powerful account of how young disabled people across Europe are reshaping disability activism and reimagining the future of social change. Drawing on rich empirical research, Miro Griffiths examines why activism matters to young disabled people, what ...
An Arts-Based Inquiry of Sibling Disability: Stealing from My Sister’s Plate
1st Edition
By Linnéa E. Franits
July 20, 2026
This book examines texts and other artistic products rendered by siblings of individuals with disabilities in order to interrogate the impact of disability on the identity of non-disabled siblings. This includes an arts-based analysis of the author’s own experiences as the sister of a woman with ...
Critical Perspectives on Disability Representation and Inclusion in Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael S. Jeffress
July 07, 2026
Drawing on a wide variety of print and digital media sources, this book discusses the need for inclusion and authentic portrayals of disability and neurodiversity in the media, as the primary way that most people learn about them. Containing 15 newly written chapters drawing on representations of ...
Care and Disability: Relational Representations
1st Edition
Edited
By D. Christopher Gabbard, Talia Schaffer
May 22, 2026
Care and Disability is an edited collection offering critical perspectives on representations of care and disability, by emerging and established scholars across multiple periods, regions, and genres of literary studies. The authors demonstrate the range of fields in which care ethics can elucidate...
Visual Discourses of Disability: Interpreting Press Images of Disability from a Discourse-Semiotic Perspective
1st Edition
By Pei Soo Ang, Siang Lee Yeo
March 18, 2026
This book demonstrates how the visual elements within news images of disability orchestrate and evoke social meanings about disability and disabled persons. It creates a Visual Discourses of Disability (ViDD) framework to delineate what and how the visualization of disability communicates ideas and...