Cultural Stations of Disability

David Bolt is Professor of Disability Studies and Interdisciplinarity at Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom.

• 0.Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse. Part I - Bodies at Work. 1.‘It’s To Be About Art, Not About Illness’: Creating Ways of Returning to MS. 2.Dury and Dwoskin: Disabled Gazes and De-normalised Sociocultural Archives. 3.The Crip Archives: Performance and Disability in Lorenza Bötnner and Elian Chali. 4.The Diary and the Diva: Unpacking Disability in Anne Frank and ‘Alejandro’. 5.Touching Trust and Finding Two Rhythms: Challenging Hierarchies as Social Activism. Part Two – Textual Travels. 6.Hidden in Plain Sight: An Autocritical Exploration of Scent of A Woman and All the Light We Cannot See. 7.Cultural Stations of Dwarfism: From Little Helpers to Burney Nesbitt. 8.A New Testament: Changing Positionality, Changing Interpretation. 9.Moments of Identification: Neurodivergent Sociality and Loss in Marvel’s WandaVision. 10.Fiction or Fable: Mental Health Depictions in Children’s Literature. Part III - Personal and Global. 11.The Same Old Story: Disability Erasure and Metaphor in Environmental Discourse. 12.From Cultural Hauntologies to Political Ontologies: An Autocritical Disability Perspective on Welfare Justice as Disability Justice. 13.Performing Femininity: Retelling Stories of the Eyes and the Pure Voice. 14.Figure Skating Pace and Olympics Policy: The Problematics of Performance Normativity Cultures in Women’s Sport. 15.Radical and Regressive: Real-World and Fictional Depictions of Disabled Superheroes in Popular Culture. x.Afterword - Our Hard Day at Hartheim.