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DisabilityWiki Project Bibliography

This bibliography compiles sources used throughout DisabilityWiki. It is organized by topic and includes international frameworks, disability-led organizations, government resources, academic sources, and community materials.

This is a living document. For guidance on adding sources, see How to Contribute.

International Frameworks and Human Rights

Section titled “International Frameworks and Human Rights”

United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

Section titled “United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)”

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

  • Bantekas, I., Stein, M.A., & Anastasiou, D. (Eds.). (2018). The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities: A Commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • de Beco, G. (Ed.). (2013). Article 33 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: National Structures for the Implementation and Monitoring of the Convention. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff.

  • de Beco, G., Quinlivan, S., & Lord, J.E. (Eds.). (2019). The Right to Inclusive Education in International Human Rights Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Other International Instruments

Section titled “Other International Instruments”
Section titled “United States Legal Frameworks”

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Section titled “Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)”

Rehabilitation Act

Section titled “Rehabilitation Act”

Education

Section titled “Education”

  • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), 20 U.S.C. § 1400 et seq.

  • Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, Pub. L. 94-142.

Housing

Section titled “Housing”

Transportation

Section titled “Transportation”
Section titled “International Country-Specific Legal Frameworks”

Canada

Section titled “Canada”

United Kingdom

Section titled “United Kingdom”

European Union

Section titled “European Union”

Australia

Section titled “Australia”

Disability-Led Organizations

Section titled “Disability-Led Organizations”

United States

Section titled “United States”

International

Section titled “International”

Disability History

Section titled “Disability History”

Books

Section titled “Books”

  • Longmore, P.K. (2003). Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

  • Longmore, P.K., & Umansky, L. (Eds.). (2001). The New Disability History: American Perspectives. New York: NYU Press.

  • Nielsen, K.E. (2012). A Disability History of the United States. Boston: Beacon Press.

  • Pelka, F. (2012). What We Have Done: An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

  • Shapiro, J.P. (1993). No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement. New York: Times Books.

  • Burch, S. (2021). Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. (Winner, Disability History Association Outstanding Book Award, 2022.)

  • Cohen, A. (2016). Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck. New York: Penguin Press.

  • Gerber, D.A. (Ed.). (2012). Disabled Veterans in History (enlarged & rev. ed.). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

  • Metzler, I. (2006). Disability in Medieval Europe: Thinking about Physical Impairment during the High Middle Ages, c.1100–c.1400. London: Routledge.

Key Events

Section titled “Key Events”

Disability Models and Theory

Section titled “Disability Models and Theory”

Foundational Texts

Section titled “Foundational Texts”

  • Oliver, M. (1990). The Politics of Disablement. London: Macmillan.

  • Oliver, M. (1996). Understanding Disability: From Theory to Practice. London: Macmillan.

  • Shakespeare, T. (2006). Disability Rights and Wrongs. London: Routledge.

  • Shakespeare, T. (2014). Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited (2nd ed.). London: Routledge.

  • Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation (UPIAS). (1976). Fundamental Principles of Disability. London: UPIAS.

  • Stone, D.A. (1984). The Disabled State. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. (The orienting text on disability as an administrative category states use to distribute aid.)

  • Campbell, F.K. (2009). Contours of Ableism: The Production of Disability and Abledness. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • McRuer, R. (2006). Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability. New York: NYU Press.

  • Kafer, A. (2013). Feminist, Queer, Crip. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

  • Mitchell, D.T., & Snyder, S.L. (2000). Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (Names “narrative prosthesis” — the essential lens for evaluating fictional portrayals of disability.)

  • Garland-Thomson, R. (1997). Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. New York: Columbia University Press.

  • Linton, S. (1998). Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity. New York: NYU Press.

Disability Justice

Section titled “Disability Justice”

  • Sins Invalid. (2019). Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People (2nd ed.).

  • Berne, P., Morales, A.L., Langstaff, D., & Sins Invalid. (2018). “Ten Principles of Disability Justice.” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, 46(1&2), 227-230.

  • Piepzna-Samarasinha, L.L. (2018). Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.

  • Russell, M. (2019). Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell (K. Rosenthal, Ed.). Chicago: Haymarket Books. (Political economy of disability; a Marxist critique of the limits of a civil-rights-only approach, including the ADA.)

Intersectionality and Disability

Section titled “Intersectionality and Disability”

  • Annamma, S.A., Connor, D., & Ferri, B. (2013). “Dis/ability critical race studies (DisCrit): Theorizing at the intersections of race and dis/ability.” Race Ethnicity and Education, 16(1), 1-31.

  • Connor, D.J., Ferri, B.A., & Annamma, S.A. (Eds.). (2016). DisCrit: Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education. New York: Teachers College Press.

  • Erevelles, N. (2011). Disability and Difference in Global Contexts: Enabling a Transformative Body Politic. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Schalk, S. (2018). Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction. Durham: Duke University Press.

Mad Studies and Psychiatric Disability

Section titled “Mad Studies and Psychiatric Disability”

  • LeFrançois, B.A., Menzies, R., & Reaume, G. (Eds.). (2013). Mad Matters: A Critical Reader in Canadian Mad Studies. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press.

  • Price, M. (2011). Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

  • Pickens, T.A. (2019). Black Madness :: Mad Blackness. Durham: Duke University Press.

Colonialism and the Global South

Section titled “Colonialism and the Global South”

  • Meekosha, H. (2011). “Decolonising disability: thinking and acting globally.” Disability & Society, 26(6), 667-682.

  • Imada, A.L. (2017). “A decolonial disability studies?” Disability Studies Quarterly, 37(3).

  • Puar, J.K. (2017). The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability. Durham: Duke University Press. (Introduces “debility”; influential but contested — its analysis of Israel/Palestine has drawn substantial criticism, which readers should weigh.)

Cure, Care, Access, and Crip Technoscience

Section titled “Cure, Care, Access, and Crip Technoscience”

  • Clare, E. (2017). Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure. Durham: Duke University Press.

  • Taylor, S. (2017). Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation. New York: The New Press.

  • Hamraie, A. (2017). Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

  • Hamraie, A., & Fritsch, K. (2019). “Crip technoscience manifesto.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 5(1).

  • Nishida, A. (2022). Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Epistemic Injustice (borrowed-lens pairings)

Section titled “Epistemic Injustice (borrowed-lens pairings)”

  • Fricker, M. (2007). Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (A philosophy text, not disability-specific — pair with disability and Mad-studies work on being disbelieved by doctors, courts, and welfare offices.)

  • Samuels, E. (2017). “Six ways of looking at crip time.” Disability Studies Quarterly, 37(3).

Disability Statistics and Data

Section titled “Disability Statistics and Data”

International Standards

Section titled “International Standards”

Data Sources

Section titled “Data Sources”

Guides and Toolkits

Section titled “Guides and Toolkits”

Research Methods and Ethics

Section titled “Research Methods and Ethics”

Inclusive Research

Section titled “Inclusive Research”

Research Ethics

Section titled “Research Ethics”

  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Belmont Report.

  • Nind, M. (2014). What is Inclusive Research? London: Bloomsbury.

  • Walmsley, J., & Johnson, K. (2003). Inclusive Research with People with Learning Disabilities: Past, Present and Futures. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Accessibility Standards

Section titled “Accessibility Standards”

Web Accessibility

Section titled “Web Accessibility”

Universal Design

Section titled “Universal Design”

Organizing and Advocacy

Section titled “Organizing and Advocacy”

Guides and Resources

Section titled “Guides and Resources”

Accessible Protest

Section titled “Accessible Protest”

Employment

Section titled “Employment”

Government Resources

Section titled “Government Resources”

Organizations

Section titled “Organizations”

Education

Section titled “Education”

Government Resources

Section titled “Government Resources”

Organizations

Section titled “Organizations”

Benefits and Economic Security

Section titled “Benefits and Economic Security”

Government Programs (U.S.)

Section titled “Government Programs (U.S.)”

Resources

Section titled “Resources”

Housing

Section titled “Housing”

Government Resources (U.S.)

Section titled “Government Resources (U.S.)”

Reports

Section titled “Reports”

Healthcare

Section titled “Healthcare”

Organizations

Section titled “Organizations”

Crisis Resources

Section titled “Crisis Resources”

Hotlines and Support

Section titled “Hotlines and Support”

Media and Culture

Section titled “Media and Culture”

Disability Media

Section titled “Disability Media”

  • Disability Visibility Project (Alice Wong).

  • Wong, A. (Ed.). (2020). Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century. New York: Vintage Books.

Representation Resources

Section titled “Representation Resources”

Academic Programs

Section titled “Academic Programs”

Disability Studies Programs

Section titled “Disability Studies Programs”

Journals

Section titled “Journals”
  • Disability Studies Quarterly. https://dsq-sds.org
  • Disability & Society. Taylor & Francis.
  • Journal of Disability Policy Studies. SAGE.
  • Review of Disability Studies. University of Hawaii.

Additional Resources

Section titled “Additional Resources”

Directories and Databases

Section titled “Directories and Databases”

Plain Language and Accessibility

Section titled “Plain Language and Accessibility”

How to Cite This Bibliography

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Contributing to This Bibliography

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