Colonising Disability

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-108-83391-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 605 g

Reihe: Critical Perspectives on Empire

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cleall, Esme

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Thinking about disability, rethinking difference; 2. Disability and Otherness in the British Empire: disablement as a discourse of difference; 3. Saving the other at home and overseas: philanthropy, education and the state; 4. 'A Fearfully and wonderfully made individual': exhibiting bodily anomaly; 5. Signs of Humanity: Language and Civilisation; 6. A Deaf Imaginary: disability, nationhood and belonging in the 'British World'; 7. Immigration: racism, ableism and exclusion; 8. The health of the nation: class, race, gender and disability in imperial Britain; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Cleall, Esme
Esme Cleall is a senior lecturer at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of Missionary Discourses of Difference: Negotiating Otherness in the British Empire, c. 1840-1900 (2012).