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This bibliography contains publications by disabled, chronically ill, Deaf, mad, and neurodivergent ethnographers. It is also available as a zine titled, Is there a reading by a disabled scholar on your anthropology syllabus? You can read and download the zine here. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ANTHOLOGIES

Colligan, Sumi, and Anna Jaysane-Darr, eds. 2025. The Disabled Anthropologist. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Disabled-Anthropologist/Colligan-Jaysane-Darr/p/book/9781032760278


Emery, Steven, Sanchayeeta Iyer, Amandine Le Maire, Erin Moriarty, and Annelies Kusters. 2024. Deaf Mobility Studies: Exploring International Networks, Tourism, and Migration. Gallaudet University Press. https://gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/D/Deaf-Mobility-Studies 

Fagan Robinson, Kelly, Mark T. Carew, and Nora Ellen Groce. 2024. Inaccessible Access: Rethinking Disability Inclusion in Academic Knowledge Creation. Rutgers. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/inaccessible-access/9781978841468

Mills, Mara, and Rebecca Sanchez. 2023. Crip Authorship: Disability as Method. New York University Press.  https://nyupress.org/9781479819362/crip-authorship/

ARTICLES, BLOGS, & CHAPTERS

Acevedo, Sara. M. 2022. “Praxis-Oriented Research Toward a Liberatory Disability Politics: A Contemplative Inquiry Approach.” Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 22(6): 593–604.  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/15327086221097070

Atuk, Tankut. 2025. “Epidemiology of Conspiracy: Infected Vaccines, Infectious Patients, and Superspreaders for Hire.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly: online.  https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/maq.70019?casa_token=nWJicXmAkZQAAAAA%3AN1DyEToSj3QMUFVQQ_mT3EXWbTjWu6-USgLBSOHLJhk-foSdG7yUWL9Utmi-7qv99ZwdGToyCh5ewYYf

Balasubramanian, Harshadha. 2024. “Against Frictionless Access.” In Inaccessible Access: Rethinking Disability Inclusion in Academic Knowledge Creation. Rutgers University Press: 117–139.  https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.36019/9781978841482-008/html?srsltid=AfmBOooNAPILXg-D57KCRpTRtG6pQiZbx7xmAAT3CWLIDxNzZs0lRc_k

Beutin, Lyndsey, and Cal Biruk. 2023. “Toward Sick Futurity: Ill Wisdom for Liberation.” Somatosphere: science, medicine, and anthropology: online. https://somatosphere.net/toward-sick-futurity-ill-wisdom-for-liberation/

Bloom, Molly. 2020. “Toward a Disability Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa.” Hesperis-Tamuda 55(4): 273–291. https://www.hesperis-tamuda.com/Downloads/2020/fascicule-4/13.pdf

Bradley, Candice. 1997. “Doing Fieldwork with Diabetes.” Cultural Anthropology Methods Journal 9(1): 1–7.  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1525822X970090020101

Brown, Lindsey, and Felicity K. Boardman. 2011. “Accessing the Field: Disability and the Research Experience.” Social Science & Medicine 72: 23–30. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953610007318?casa_token=qzMBiB6aiSkAAAAA:gsXwKyNXpqzkzNPLgfhNK_oRxZKB6ZICf3cNEs1pT5TbCbxnz91TeKeJNUz2brk_qcqK-JpTGdM

Chaudhry, Vandana. 2019. “Centering Embodiment in Disability Research through Performance Ethnography.” Qualitative Social Work 18(5): 754–771. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1473325018767728

Colligan, Sumi E. 1994. “The Ethnographer’s Body as Text: When Disability Becomes ‘Other’‑Abling.” Anthropology of Work Review 15(2–3): 5–9.  https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1525/awr.1994.15.2-3.5?casa_token=wy-1-Ra_hh4AAAAA:_5HsYKVV3yOLops0bssp4Sw9Kp_PW-vBuIGwgvTiC4lsTT3SQEpt34ujd_urOUjyAY_FKf7soiOyHUZm

Darcy Jr, Kevin. 2024. “An Ethnography of Disability in Academia: Stories of Crip Time, Cripping Independence and the Cognitive Load of Disability.” PhD diss., University of Colorado at Boulder.  https://www.proquest.com/openview/18e56cf8983acf780cd21b60b96a6114/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

Duncan, Austin. 2024. “Living ‘with TBI’ as Complex Embodiment.” Disability & Society 39(6): 1546–1567. https://doi-org.ezp2.lib.umn.edu/10.1080/09687599.2022.2150600

Durban, Erin L. 2022. “Anthropology and Ableism.” American Anthropologist 124(1): 8–20.  https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aman.13659?casa_token=93pyU212G0YAAAAA:D_I9bT7dkaaz1E_qpvj_8ExgXNx3J37rzvcEGWqLs6yc-W8l3NY9Tf6C7IF0v-7XhtlAiusFganhPMe0

Durban, Erin L. 2024. “Doing It Together: A Queer Case for Cripping Ethnography.” In Unsettling Queer Anthropology: Foundations, Reorientations, and Departures: 227–246. https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.13286170.16

Emery, Steven, Sanchayeeta Iyer, Amandine le Maire, Erin Moriarty, and Annelies Kusters. 2024. “Doing Deaf Ethnography.” In Deaf Mobility Studies: Exploring International Networks, Tourism, and Migration. Washington: Gallaudet University Press.  https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/18/oa_edited_volume/chapter/4009300/pdf

Evans, Bethan, Alison Allam, Ana Bê, Catherine Hale, Morag Rose, and Anna Ruddock. 2024. “Being Left Behind Beyond Recovery: ‘Crip Time’ and Chronic Illness in Neoliberal Academia.” Social & Cultural Geography: 1–21. https://doi-org.ezp1.lib.umn.edu/10.1080/14649365.2024.2410262

Falu, Nessette. 2021. “Invisible Hands: The Reproductivities of Queer(ing) and Race(ing) Gynecology.” In The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction. Routledge: 305–320. https://www-taylorfrancis-com.ezp1.lib.umn.edu/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003216452-23/invisible-hands-nessette-falu

Fernandes, Kim. 2023. “For Graduate Students, When the Sadness is Unbelievable.” Lateral 12(1): online. https://csalateral.org/section/crip-pandemic-life/for-graduate-students-when-sadness-unbelievable-how-to-research-write-if-we-must-when-world-is-on-fire-fernandez/

Friedner, Michele. 2023. “Political, Economic, and Relational Production of Sense: Negotiating Sensory Inequality and Access in Research on Cochlear Implantation in India.” In The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography. Routledge: 158–169. https://www-taylorfrancis-com.ezp3.lib.umn.edu/reader/download/261243cf-9457-43d9-94bd-31d134be55a7/chapter/pdf?context=ubx

Friedner, Michele, and Annelies Kusters. 2020. “Deaf Anthropology.” Annual Review of Anthropology 49(1): 31–47.  https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-anthro-010220-034545

Friedner, Michele, with Devva Kasnitz, and Zoë Wool. 2018. “What I Wish I Knew about Anthropology and Disability: Notes Toward a More Enabling Anthropology.” Anthrodendum: online.  https://anthrodendum.org/2018/01/10/what-i-wish-i-knew-about-anthropology-and-disability-notes-toward-a-more-enabling-anthropology/

Gibson, Hannah. 2019. “Living a Full Life: Embodiment, Disability, and ‘Anthropology at Home’.” Medicine Anthropology Theory 6(2): online.  https://www.medanthrotheory.org/mat/article/view/4938

Hoppe, Silke. 2012. “The Negative Side of Independence: An Exploration of the Self and Others.” Medische Antropologie 24(1): 131–147.  https://tma.socsci.uva.nl/24_1/hoppe.pdf

Hunter‑Pazzara, Brandon, and Kevin Darcy. 2020. “Accessibility at the AAA Annual Meeting.” Anthropology News: online. https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/accessibility-at-the-aaa-meeting/


Jackson, Liz, Alex Haagaard, and Rua Williams. 2022. “Disability Dongle.” Platypus: online. https://blog.castac.org/2022/04/disability-dongle/

Kapadia, Melissa. 2020. “Illness Methodology for and Beyond the COVID‑19 Era.” Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education 18(1).  https://urbanedjournal.gse.upenn.edu/archive/volume-18-issue-1-fall-2020/illness-methodology-and-beyond-covid-era#:~:text=This%20has%20historically%20included%20ill,illness%20epistemologies%20in%20one's%20research:

Karagoz, Orhan. 2023. “Doing Ethnography Blind.” Anthropology in Action 30(2): 35–40.  https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/aia/30/2/aia300205.xml?utm_source=TrendMD&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Anthropology_in_Action_TrendMD_1

Kasnitz, Devva. 2020. “The Politics of Disability Performativity: An Autoethnography.” Current Anthropology 61(21): online.  https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/705782

Kusters, Annelies. 2012. “Being a Deaf White Anthropologist in Adamorobe: Some Ethical and Methodological Issues.” In Sign Languages in Village Communities: Anthropological and Linguistic Insights. Gruyter: 27–52.  https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614511496.27

Long, Rebecca‑Eli, and Hannah Quinn. 2022. “Rupturing ‘Capacity to Consent’: Toward Anti‑Ableist Research Relations.” Disability as Rupture Series: online. https://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/rupturing-capacity-to-consent-toward-anti-ableist-research-relations

Marie, Aron S. 2023. “Precarious Interdependence: Sign Language Interpreting in Hà Nội, Việt Nam.” PhD diss., The University of Chicago.  https://www.proquest.com/openview/bdd4b598a57c335fe6ee0a99f5ad1c1c/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

Mello, Anahí Guedes de. 2019. “Olhar, (não) ouvir, escrever: uma autoetnografia ciborgue.” Tese (Doutorado em Antropologia Social) – Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/215355


Mogendorff, Karen. 2020. “A Closer Look at ‘Wheelchair’ Ethnography: Ableism and the Insights Disabled Scholars Generate With–Not Despite–Their Impairments and Disabilities.” In Social Research and Disability. Routledge: 50–63. https://www-taylorfrancis-com.ezp1.lib.umn.edu/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429426124-5/closer-look-wheelchair-ethnography-karen-mogendorff

Moodie, Megan. 2022. “Disruption at the Center: Disability Anthropology and Black Feminist Research‑Creation.” Disability as Rupture Series: online.  https://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/disruption-at-the-center-disability-anthropology-and-black-feminist-research-creation

Moodie, Megan. 2025. “Autoethnography, Undone: Toward a Crip Critique of Ethnographic Realism.” In Autotheories. MIT Press.  https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15576.003.0006

Moore, Erin V. 2021. “On Borrowed Time: Living with Chronic Terror in the United States’ Insulin Crisis.” Somatosphere: science, medicine, and anthropology: online. https://somatosphere.com/2021/borrowed-time-diabetes-moore.html/

Moriarty, Erin. 2020. “‘Sign to Me, Not the Children’: Ideologies of Language Contamination at a Deaf Tourist Site in Bali.” Language & Communication 74: 195–203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2020.06.002

Moss, Pamela. 2016. “Writing Illness through Feminist Autobiographical Analysis.” In Practicing Qualitative Methods in Health Geographies. Routledge: 74–91. https://www-taylorfrancis-com.ezp1.lib.umn.edu/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315601946-7/writing-illness-feminist-autobiographical-analysis-pamela-moss

Price, Margaret, and Stephanie L. Kerschbaum. 2016. “Stories of Methodology: Interviewing Sideways, Crooked, and Crip.” Canadian Journal of Disability Studies 5(3): 18–56. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v5i3.295

Rogers, Emily Lim. 2022. “The Lapsed Ethnographer: Toward Foggy Fieldwork.” Disability as Rupture Series: online.  https://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/the-lapsed-ethnographer-toward-foggy-fieldwork

Rogers, Emily Lim. 2023. “Virtual Ethnography.” In Crip Authorship: Disability as Method, edited by Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez, 93–98. New York University Press. https://www-jstor-org.ezp2.lib.umn.edu/stable/jj.13944206.12


Sauma, Julia. 2021. “The Body Perfect: On Disability, Experience, and the Aesthetics of Expertise.” Teaching Anthropology 10(1): 71–74. https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v10i1.591

MONOGRAPHS

Dokumaci, Arseli. 2023. Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds. Duke University Press.  https://dukeupress.edu/activist-affordances

Friedner, Michele. 2022. Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India. University of Minnesota Press.  https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517912130/sensory-futures/

Heath-Stout, Laura E. 2024. Identity, Oppression, and Diversity in Archaeology. Routledge, 2024. https://www.routledge.com/Identity-Oppression-and-Diversity-in-Archaeology-Career-Arcs/Heath-Stout/p/book/9780367743987

Jain, S. Lochlann. 2013. Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us. University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/malignant/paper

Martin, Emily. 2007. Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture. Princeton University Press.  https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691141060/bipolar-expeditions?srsltid=AfmBOopmTHfZTc4r0f8GSfp0YbBues1g9USMvdPsWnKNiUONt0rivpQh

Nakamura, Karen. 2013. A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan. Cornell University Press. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501717048/a-disability-of-the-soul/

Taylor, Sunaura. 2024. Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert. University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/disabled-ecologies/hardcover

COMING SOON!

Sick Work: Exhaustion, Labor, and Invisible Illness, by Emily Lim Rogers. Forthcoming with Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/sick-work

The Handbook of Disability Anthropology, edited by Sumi Colligan and Anna Jaysane-Darr. Under contract with Routledge.

Enabling Ethnography: Crafting Anti-Ableist Fieldwork Methods, by Erin L. Durban. Under contract with University of Minnesota Press.

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