In the last 30 years, a distinctive intersection between disability studies – including disability rights advocacy, disability rights activism, and disability law – and disability arts, culture, and media studies has developed. The two fields have worked in tandem to offer critique of representations of disability in dominant cultural systems, institutions, discourses, and architecture, and develop provocative new representations of what it means to be disabled.
It provides scholars, graduate students, upper level undergraduate students, and others interested in the disability rights agenda with a broad-based, practical and accessible introduction to key debates in the field of disability art, culture, and media studies. An internationally recognised selection of authors from around the world come together to articulate the theories, issues, interests, and practices that have come to define the field. Most critically, this book includes commentaries that forecast the pressing present and future concerns for the field as scholars, advocates, activists, and artists work to make a more inclusive society a reality.

1. Introduction: Disability arts, culture and Media Studies
Part 1
Disability, Identity and Representation
2. Great Reckoning in more Accessible Rooms: Provocative Re-imaginings of Disability Theater
3.Visual Narratives: Contemplating the Storied images of Disability and Disablement
4. Dis/ordered Assemblages of Disability in Museums
5. The Down Syndrome Novel: a Microcosm For Inclusion or Parental Trauma Narrative
6. Paralympics, Para Sport Bodies and Legacies of media Representation Etc...........
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