ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the consistencies and confluences as well as the distances and differences between cultural studies and critical disability studies as fields of study. It explores 'relations between symbolic systems, categorization and institutionalisation processes, material artefacts, practices and "ways of doing things," and their consequences for persons with and without disabilities, their social positions, relations and ways of subjectivation'. The chapter provides the emergence of critical disability studies out of disability studies will be mapped. It examines the connections between critical disability studies and cultural studies will unfold. Disability holds an ambivalent but potent place in both public and academic consciousness. Disability studies, located within such diverse fields as the health, sociological, anthropological, and urban geographical disciplines, have struggled to find a theoretical home. Disability studies scholars seek to situate a disabled body outside of these expectations, allowing disabled people to move beyond correction or concealment, and encode celebration of human diversity and the persistence of difference.
