Here is a work-in-progress list of texts and other resources at the intersection of critical disability studies, anthropology and ethnographic research methodologies.
Campbell, F. K. 2009. “The Project of Ableism”. In Contours of Ableism. The Production of Disability and Abledness. New York: Palgrave. Pp.: 3-30
Chen, Mel. 2023. “Chronic illness, slowness, and the time of writing”, in Crip Authorship.
Code of the Freaks Documentary: https://www.codeofthefreaks.com/
Chen, Mel Y. (2023): Intoxicated. Race, disability, and chemical intimacy across empire. Durham: Duke University Press (Anima).
Colligan, Sumi & Jaysane-Darr, Anna (2025) The Disabled Anthropologist. Routledge
Friedner, M. and A. Kusters. 2020. “Deaf Anthropology.” Annual Review of Anthropology, 49(1): 31-47.
Friedner, Michele; Helmreich, Stefan (2012): Sound Studies Meets Deaf Studies. In: The Senses and Society 7 (1), S. 72–86. DOI: 10.2752/174589312X13173255802120.
Ginsburg F. and Rapp R. 2020. “Disability/Anthropology: Rethinking the Parameters of the Human: An Introduction to Supplement 21.” Current Anthropology, 61: S21, S4-S15.
Hoben, John und Hesson, Jackie. 2021. “Invisible Lives: Using Autoethnography to Explore the Experiences of Academics Living with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).” New horizons in adult education & human resource development 33 (1): 37–50. https://doi.org/10.1002/nha3.20304.
Kafer, Alison. 2013. Feminist, Queer, Crip. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.https://iupress.org/9780253009340/feminist-queer-crip/
Kasnitz, Devva. 2020. “The Politics of Disability Performativity. An Autoethnography.” Current anthropology 61(21): 16–25. https://doi.org/10.1086/705782.
Kwon, Chang-kyu. 2024. “Resistance from the margin: An autoethnographic account of academic ableism.” Human resource development quarterly 35 (1): 89–107. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21498.
Mills, Mara and Jonathan Sterne, “16. Afterword II: Dismediation—Three Proposals, Six Tactics” in Disability Media Studies, pp. 365-378; 13 pages
Mills, M. and Sanchez, R., 2023. Crip authorship: Disability as method. New York University Press.
Mills, M., Kornstein, H., Ginsburg, F.D. and Rapp, R. eds., 2025. How to be Disabled in a Pandemic. New York: New York University Press.
Nakamura, K., 2013. A disability of the soul: An ethnography of schizophrenia and mental illness in contemporary Japan. In A Disability of the Soul. Cornell University Press.
Parks, Elizabeth S. 2021. “The Hybrid I/Eye A Critical Autoethnography of Intersecting Race and Disability Identities.” Journal of Autoethnography 2 (1): 26–38. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2021.2.1.26.
Piepzna-Samarasinha, L. L. (2019). Tonguebreaker. arsenal pulp press.
Richards, Rose. 2008. “Writing the Othered Self: Autoethnography and the Problem of Objectification in Writing About Illness and Disability.” Qualitative Health Research. 18 (12): 1717-1728.
Sauma, Julia F.. 2021. The Body Perfect: On Disability, Experience and the Aesthetics of Expertise. Teaching Anthropology, 10(1), pp. 71-75 (https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/34689/)
Sterne, Jonathan (2022) Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment. Duke University Press
Wolf-Meyer, Matthew & Friedner, Michelle Ilana (2022) Disability as Rupture – Special Issue https://culanth.org/fieldsights/series/disability-as-rupture
Other resources
Kindred networks and initiatives – find further resources and possibilities to network and share under the following links
Disability Archive Lab
https://disabilityarchiveslab.com/
Labs for Liberation
https://labsforliberation.org/
Patchwork Ethnography
https://www.patchworkethnography.com/
Disability under siege, final conference:
https://disabilityundersiege.bham.ac.uk/final-conference/
Cripping Methodology Reading Group: Cripping, Sickening, Neurodiversifying and Maddenings Methodology (2026):
https://intersect-nd-dis-rg.wixsite.com/rg-site/reading-groups/cripping-methodology
ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists, UK) Disability Network.
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