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This book offers a global angle to Disability History by exploring
global locations as disparate as the Caribbean, Kenya, Mauritius,
Natal and Poland as well as taking new approaches to Britain and
the US. Global Histories of Disability seeks to address issues
including colonialism, disability, the body, forced labour and
indigeneity. A further key issue that reoccurs throughout the
volume is the specificity of place. With several chapters examining
the Global South, such work challenges the implicit tendency to
assume that the western experience of disability is a universal
one. The volume intends to do more than add new case studies to our
knowledge about disability in the modern period, it intends to use
the insights gained from examining disparate global sites to think
more about the global histories of disability both empirically and
theoretically. Issues addressed by different chapters include
colonialism, imperialism, disability, deafness, the body,
enslavement, labour and indigeneity. Different chapters also use
economic, cultural, legal and political frameworks to explore
issues of disability across a range of global locations. This
volume is essential for students, scholars and researchers alike
interested in world and international history.
Colonising Disability explores the construction and treatment of
disability across Britain and its empire from the nineteenth to the
early twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Esme
Cleall explores how disability increasingly became associated with
'difference' and argues that it did so through intersecting with
other categories of otherness such as race. Philanthropic, legal,
literary, religious, medical, educational, eugenistic and
parliamentary texts are examined to unpick representations of
disability that, overtime, became pervasive with significant
ramifications for disabled people. Cleall also uses multiple
examples to show how disabled people navigated a wide range of
experiences from 'freak shows' in Britain, to missions in India, to
immigration systems in Australia, including exploring how they
mobilised to resist discrimination and constitute their own
identities. By assessing the intersection between disability and
race, Dr Cleall opens up questions about 'normalcy' and the making
of the imperial self.
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