The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Disability Studies

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. 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