Disability History in the Modern Middle East
Sara Scalenghe editor Beverly Tsacoyianis editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:4th Feb '27
£85.00
This title is due to be published on 4th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A comprehensive picture of the current state of the field of disability history and disability studies, focused on Middle Eastern communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
This volume presents a comparative, cross-disciplinary approach to disability history in Middle Eastern communities, focusing on case studies from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Chapters span a number of country case studies including Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt, Palestine and Iran, and cover a wide range of topics including experiences of disability during the late Ottoman Empire, the construction of disability under the British Empire in Syria and Egypt, psychiatric healing practices in the Eastern Mediterranean, and the intersections of religion, nationhood and disability.
By foregrounding marginalized voices from the past, to uniquely highlight a perspective on disability studies from the Global South, this book also questions the ethics of treatment and advocacy for policy reform in the present day.
This is a powerful and necessary contribution to the field of Disability Studies. An absolutely necessary read for anyone interested in the Middle East. Only now can we claim that Disability Studies is inclusive, with the emergence of this volume. -- Shahd Alshammari, Associate Professor of Literature, Gulf University for Science & Technology, Kuwait
Disability History in the Middle East expands our understanding of place-based disability and madness and the past. Critically attentding to the modern state, colonialism, representations, and gender, the authors model historical specificity and deep contextual analysis, reframing core disability history themes: war, technologies, incarceration, poverty, policy, and citizenship. A must-read work for everyone interested in disability history. -- Susan Burch, Professor, Middlebury College, USA
Exemplary scholarship that introduces new and insightful perspectives to disability history. Greatly enriches the ways scholars think about the timelines and cultures of disability in a global context. * Wei Yu Wayne Tan, Associate Professor, Hope College, USA *
ISBN: 9780755653256
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288 pages