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Colonising Disability

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

Cleall, Esme

Editorial: Cambridge University Press

Colección: Critical Perspectives on Empire

Número de páginas: 311 págs.  22.9 x 15.2 cm  

Fecha de edición: 01-08-2024

EAN: 9781108987370

ISBN: 978-1-108-98737-0

Precio (sin IVA): 41,07 €

Precio (IVA incluído): 42,71 €

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.

 

Características

Idioma:
Inglés
País de edición:
Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña
Encuadernación:
Rústica
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