Berghahn Series

Disability and Chronicity through the Ethnographic Lens

Series editor:
Giorgio Brocco, Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna

Editorial board:
Renu Addlakha, Centre for Women’s Development Studies, Indian Council of Social Science Research
Charlotte Baker, Lancaster University
Maria Berghs, De Montfort University
Tsitsi Chataika, University of Zimbabwe
Michele Friedner, University of Chicago
Bernhard Hadolt, University of Vienna
Theresia Hofer, University of Bristol
Elisabeth Hsu, University of Oxford
Chisomo Kalinga, University of Edinburgh
Janina Kehr, University of Vienna
Kristine Krause, University of Amsterdam
Eva-Maria Knoll, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Zhiying Ma, University of Chicago
Stefanie Mauksch, University of Leipzig
Nilika Mehrotra, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Benson A. Mulemi, University of Pretoria
Roberta Raffaetà, Ca Foscari University
Malgorzata Rajtar, Polish Academy of Sciences
Giulia Sinatti, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
James Staples, Brunel University
Anthony Stavrianakis, CNRS, Université Paris – Nanterre

This series explores how political, economic, socio-cultural, environmental, biosocial, and subjective experiences of disability and chronicity intersect with, and shape, the multiple ways people engage in social lives, politics and belonging, the environment, religion, gender, technology, digital worlds and the media and work as well as affects, forms of well-being and emotions. Bringing these perspectives together challenges hegemonic and ableist visions and systems, which remain deeply entangled with historical and contemporary forms of patriarchy, racism, and colonialism across diverse localities around the globe. The series publishes monographs and edited collections that address a wide range of topics related to disability and chronicity from global and cross-cultural perspectives including human and more-than-human subjects. We especially welcome contributions that complicate taken-for-granted distinctions between the ordinary and the “unordinary,” and that rethink normative assumptions about various bodyminds and the environment.