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Published online: 25 May 2023
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We live in an age dominated by media and the portals of mass globalised communication. Never before in history has the representation of any matter (literally and figuratively) in its various signifying forms, image, word, audio, mimetic condensation, had the capacity to be so widely and synchronically disseminated and subject to group influence, albeit through the hyper-virtuality of the media-saturated internet. It is within this context of globalised media studies that the book under review here, Disability, Media, and Representations: Other Bodies, explores the phenomenon of disability. In this regard, the book makes an important contribution to the field of disability studies, or rather critical disability studies, a field that takes an intersectional and transdisciplinary approach to issues pertaining to disability. In particular, the book attempts to broaden the category of disability through analyses of representations of the seemingly differential body that arise within different media forms, representations that may serve to further stigmatise or exclude certain differential forms of embodiment, while other times serving to challenge the more negatively biased dimension of ableist culture. It is important to highlight that this is not a book about disability per se, as in providing extensive definitions, descriptions or analyses of the different theoretical and historical models pertaining to disability in the academic literature. However, references to these models do feature as part of the fabric and background of the analyses. In contrast to stabilising definitions of disability, Disability, Media, and Representations: Other Bodies deals with representations of disability, not as a form of concrete materialism but rather as an epistemological process that overlaps with a poststructuralist account of disability and, therefore, a non-totalising representati