Colonising Disability - Esme Cleall

Colonising Disability

Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and Its Empire, c. 1800–1914

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Buch | Hardcover
310 Seiten
2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-83391-2 (ISBN)
93,50 inkl. MwSt
Colonising Disability explores the construction and treatment of disability across Britain and its Empire. Using a wide range of sources, Esme Cleall sheds important light on identity, othering, representation and experience in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century drawing into question other key concepts such as race and 'normalcy'.
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.

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).

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.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Critical Perspectives on Empire
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 235 mm
Gewicht 600 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10 1-108-83391-8 / 1108833918
ISBN-13 978-1-108-83391-2 / 9781108833912
Zustand Neuware
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