2024/03/01 by Rebecca P Scales, Jérôme Bas, Gildas Brégain +4 · 1 voice
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · Health Professions · #Education, sociology, and vocational training #Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis #Health, Medicine and Society
paper · doi:10.1093/fh/crae007
openalex publication_date 2024/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
Abstract What is disability? How might a focus on disability as a category of human experience change the way we think and write about the French past? In this roundtable seven historians discuss the emergence of disability studies in France, assessing the continued relevance of classics in the field as well as new directions in research. Scholarly attention to disability, the contributors argue, has the potential to transform modern French historiography, not only by challenging our understanding of major ‘turning points’ such as the French Revolution or the world wars, but offering fresh insights into race, class and gender identities, as well as citizenship, inclusion and belonging in French society.