The late Chris Bell, disability studies scholar, challenged disability studies to be more
consciously reflective (and reflexive) about race and ethnicity, and specifically its whiteness …

In putting together the ideas behind this special issue of the Journal of Literary & Cultural
Disability Studies we were mindful of a number of concerns. The first was our own desire, as …

In this article, I argue that disabled people and immigrants are subjected to similar forms of
representation. I draw on examples from theology in the Christian Middle Ages, the influence …

This paper explores the concept of disability through a critical disability lens to understand
how Indigenous ontologies are positioned within the dominant discourse of disabled …

Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans
as monstrous and deformed beings. The English drew on pre-existing European ideas …

Beyond rough estimates, little is known about disability in the majority world and
complexities related to context and poverty are too often unacknowledged in the quest to …

188| nine and identity, as well as locating resistance. In this sense, when Skelton and
Valentine (2003) examined the 'weapons of the weak'(Scott 1985), they found volunteering …

This is the first book to explore how far disability challenges dominant understandings of
rurality, identity, gender and belonging within the rural literature. The book focuses …

Whilst there is now a developing body of knowledge on disability and 'race', with some
notable exceptions (Begum et al., 1994; Stuart, 1993; Vernon, 1999) much of this literature …

The alleged shooting by Paralympian and Olympian athlete Oscar Pistorius of his girlfriend
Reeva Steenkamp has led to strong reactions worldwide. Scholars in the field of disability …