Esme Cleall, "Colonising Disability: Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and Its Empire, c. 1800-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
New Books in Disability Studies
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The Politics of Language in the British Empire
The book looks at the discourse of disability and 19th century debate about what constitutes human kin. Deafness features a point of particular interest in the book for two reasons: I've got some deaf cousins who introduced me to ideas about deaf politics, which is also coming from the sources. The chapter uses the notion of language and civilization as a lens through which to think about sub questions about how disabled people were understood in the context of the British Empire.
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