Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability challenges people in disability studies as well as other disciplinary fields to critically reflect on their professional praxis in terms of theory, practice, and methods.

List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Looking to the Future for Critical Disability Studies: Disciplines, Perspectives and Manifestos (Mike Kent, Katie Ellis, Rachel Robertson and Rosemarie Garland Thomson); Part One, Disciplines of Media and Communication; Chapter 2: Teaching disability studies and building a community of pedagogy through Facebook (Beth A. Haller and Matthew Wangeman); Chapter 3: Disability, Higher Education and E-learning: Moving beyond accessible web design (Mike Kent, Katie Ellis, Tim Pitman, Leanne McRae and Nathalie Latter); Chapter 4: On dis/ability within game studies: The discursive construction of ludic bodies (Simon Ledder); Chapter 5: Disability studies, big data and algorithmic culture (Olivia Banner); Part Two, Disciplines of Culture and Arts; Chapter 6: Sharing and shaping space: Notes toward an aesthetic ecology (Gretchen E. Henderson); Chapter 7: Why critical disability studies needs a cultural model of dis/ability (Anne Waldschmidt); Chapter 8: Celebrating the able body in contemporary disAbility performance (Suzanne Ingelbrecht); Chapter 9: Re-thinking care: Disability and narratives of care in Dinah Mulock Craik's A noble life (1866) (Theresa Miller); Chapter 10: The politics of creative access: Guidelines for a critical dis/ability curatorial practice (Amanda Cachia); Chapter 11: Towards a critical disability studies model of teacher education (Saili S. Kulkarni); Part Three, Disciplines of Complexity and Innovation; Chapter 12: Complexity and disability: drawing from a complexity approach to think through disability at the intersections (Louisa Smith and Leanne Dowse); Chapter 13: Towards a crip methodology for critical disability studies (Louise Hickman and David Serlin); Chapter 14: Inserting disability pedagogies in mutable configurations of space and interaction (Brian Goldfarb and Suzanne Stolz); Chapter 15: Mobilising historical knowledge: Locating the disability archive (Natalie Spagnuolo); Chapter 16: Cripping immunity: Disability and the immune self (Travis Chi Wing Lau); Chapter 17: Theologising disability: Intersections of critique and collaboration (Sarah Jean Barton); Part Four, Perspectives of Place; Chapter 18: Hello from the other side: Why Iran remains excluded from global disability studies (Negin Hosseini Goodrich); Chapter 19: Misrecognising persons with disabilities in the Global South: The need for a comparative disability studies framework (Stephen Meyers); Chapter 20: An investigation into the social integration of people with disabilities in the European Union using a novel approach to cultural consonance analysis (Mirjam Holleman); Chapter 21: Different, not less: Communicating autism via the internet in Indonesia (Hersinta); Chapter 22: Making the irrelevant relevant: The case of the invisibles with disabilities in the Middle East (Najma Al Zidjaly); Part Five, Perspectives of Experience; Chapter 23: Human doing to human being: Western versus Indigenous views on differences in ability (Jillian Pearsall-Jones, Caris Jalla and George Hayden); Chapter 24: Strange beauty: Aesthetic possibilities for desiring disability into the future (Eliza Chandler and Esther Ignagni); Chapter 25: The Brazilian way: Media coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games (Tatiane Hilgemberg); Chapter 26: I could see the future: An ethnographic study of Deaf children's transition from an oral school to a signing school (Pamela G Macias); Glossary; Index