Multidisciplinary Approaches to Disability in Iceland (Late 9th–Early 20th Century)

This article reports on a multidisciplinary project exploring constructions of disability in Iceland before the establishment of disability as a modern legal, bureaucratic, and administrative concept. The project’s vast temporal scope spans the settlement of Iceland in the late 9th century to the ea...

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Published in:Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research
Main Authors: Crocker, Christopher, Ebenezersdóttir, Eva Þórdís, Ólafsdóttir, Sólveig, Bergsdóttir, Arndís, Haraldsson, Haraldur Þór, Bower, Alice, Tirosh, Yoav, Sigurjónsdóttir, Hanna Björg, Rice, James
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Stockholm University Press 2022
Subjects:
Disability Studies
Archaeology
Medieval Literature
Folklore
History
and Museology
Disability History
Methodology
Iceland
Collaborative Research
Absence
Online Access:https://www.sjdr.se/jms/article/view/868
https://doi.org/10.16993/sjdr.868
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Summary:This article reports on a multidisciplinary project exploring constructions of disability in Iceland before the establishment of disability as a modern legal, bureaucratic, and administrative concept. The project’s vast temporal scope spans the settlement of Iceland in the late 9th century to the early 20th century, and it combines research in the fields of Archaeology, Medieval Literature, Folklore, History, and Museology. The article outlines the project’s rich and diverse source material and its data collection procedures before discussing the various methods employed across the disciplines involved. Focus simultaneously turns to the project’s myriad discipline-specific findings and to the presence of ambiguity and absence, invisibility, or silence as recurring cross-disciplinary themes.

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