Transatlantic Disability Histories, c. 1700-1990
Affiliation
This course provides an introduction to the field of Disability History and will explore how cognitive and physical difference have been understood and constructed in Europe and the Americas from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. We will examine how disability intersected with systems of labour, care, race, gender, colonial power and transatlantic exchange, and how disabled people have navigated and resisted these structures.
Credit Level: 10
Year Taken: Year 3 Undergraduate
SCQF Credits: 20