nation-state; eugenics; citizenship; decolonial disability studies; debility
Helen Meekosha, “Decolonising Disability: Thinking and Acting Globally.” Disability & Society 26, no. 6 (October 2011): 667–82.
Laura Jordan Jaffee (2016) “Disrupting global disability frameworks: settler-colonialism and the geopolitics of disability in Palestine/Israel,” Disability & Society, 31:1, 116-130.
Jasbir K. Puar (2023) “Critical Disability Studies and the Question of Palestine: Toward Decolonizing Disability.” In Crip Genealogies, edited by Mel Y. Chen, Alison Kafer, Eunjung Kim, and Julie Avril Minich, 117–34. Duke University Press. *
Bayan Abusneineh, “(Re)producing the Israeli (European) body: Zionism, Anti-Black Racism and the Depo-Provera Affair,” Feminist Review, 28(1) **
Short documentary on Deafness in Gaza: Vibrations from Gaza
Settler-colonialism from Canada to Gaza - visual poem: Canada Park
Sins Invalid, Disability Justice for Palestine.
Jasbir Puar on teaching Palestine in disability studies classrooms, Disability Visibility Project (coming soon!)
* For an American example to pair this with, we suggest Mae Ngai, "The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law,” Journal of American History, (1999) 86(1): 67-92.
** We suggest pairing Puar with Julie Livingston’s “Insights from an African History of Disability,” Radical History Review, 94 (2006): 111-126.
Jasbir Puar (2017). The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, Duke University Press, chapters 3-4 are particularly relevant.
Sandra Sufian, “Mental Hygiene and the Zionist Project.” Disability Studies Quarterly 27(4), 2007.
Meira Weiss (2002). The Chosen Body: The Politics of the Body in Israeli Society. Stanford University Press.
Access in the Making Lab - includes statement, reading, and resources.
Allie Cannington, 2023, “Crip Call for Action: Why Disabled People Need to Be Calling for a Ceasefire,” Disability Visibility Project Blog.
“Gaza: Israeli Attacks, Blockade Devastating for People with Disabilities,” Human Rights Watch.
Disability Under Siege (reports and videos)
Institute of Community and Public Health at Birzeit University
