
Abstract This chapter addresses three primary questions: What is disability culture? What is disability studies? How do these two interact? Disability culture is explored as a movement “from the inside out,” one focused on issues of choice, power, language, and identity/community. Disability studies is articulated as a political and interdisciplinary field, and four key areas of scholarly and activist focus (and the connection between them) that take place within the field are examined: questioning previous and developing models of disability (social, medical, identity); refiguring representation; restructuring worldview concepts such as normal, different, deviant; and understanding disability as positioned within diversity and identity. The productive and creative potential, and the limiting and denigrating reality, of categorizing disability/disabilities is considered. Finally, future directions and key questions for both disability studies and disability culture are outlined.
| citations This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | 20 | |
| popularity This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network. | Top 10% | |
| influence This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | Top 10% | |
| impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network. | Average |
