Histories of disability and emotions

Reclaiming pain, agency, and intersectionality

AvNinon Dubourg,Sara Scalenghe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Del i serien Disability History

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Beskrivning

This volume shows how emotions have not merely accompanied disability but fundamentally shaped its history. From early modern pain narratives to twentieth-century activism, its chapters reveal how feelings like joy, fear, anger and pride have defined the lived experience of disability and influenced how others have represented it. Exploring intersections with race, gender, caste, and labour, the book emotional worlds, ranging from enslaved men in the nineteenth-century United States to schoolchildren in colonial India. It shows how disabled people have reclaimed emotional expression as a source of agency and resistance, transforming pity into protest and isolation into solidarity. Drawing on rich case studies across continents and centuries, the volume reframes disability as an affective experience deeply embedded in social power, cultural meaning, and historical change. It urges us to rethink the stories we tell about bodies, emotions and belonging.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-11-10
Mått:138 x 216 x 16 mm
Vikt:343 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Disability History
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9781807070540

Utforska kategorier

Sociala och etiska frågor inom Samhälle och politik
Psykologi: känslor inom Psykologi och pedagogik
Medicinhistoria inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Ninon Dubourg is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of CologneSara Scalenghe is Professor of History at Loyola University MarylandPieter Verstraete is Professor of Educational Sciences at the KU Leuven

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: From the centre to the margins: Rethinking the history of disability in the wake of the affective turn – Ninon Dubourg, Sara Scalenghe, Pieter Verstraete1 Reclaiming pain, fatigue and misery: Workers’ disability benefit claims in the Netherlands, 1901–1967 – Nathanje Dijkstra2 ‘As if it would tear her apart’: Chronic pain experiences and emotions in early modern miracle collections, fifteenth to seventeenth centuries – Bianca Frohne3 Disability, patience and sadness in Teresa de Cartagena’s Arboleda de los enfermos – Nicole Reibe4 The emotional intimacy of pain: Hojo Tamio and the experience of leprosy (Hansen’s disease) in twentieth-century Japan – Wei Yu Wayne Tan5 ‘Dancing for joy’: Disability and affect in British missionary writing from early twentieth-century South Asia – Esme Cleall6 ‘Melancholy yet sweet satisfaction’: Emotion, physical disability and identity among enslaved men within the nineteenth-century U.S. Plantation South – Mia Edwards7 Emotions, education and the struggle for social justice: The affective politics of disfigurement in post-Independent India – Shilpaa Anand8 Piss on pity: Disabled people’s activism in twentieth century Britain – Kirstie Stage9 Feeling the way: Disciplining emotions of blind mobility in Britain, c. 1960-1979 – Beck Chamberlain Heslop10 Emotional readings: Representations of disability in Italian children’s literature and schoolbooks, 1880-1940 – Simonetta Polenghi and Anna DebèAfterword: Feeling our way forward – David M. Turner