Enumerating Infirmity
Disability, Demography, and Empire, 1820-1950
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4826410 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aparna Nair (0000-0001-5039-5707, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Pages | 75-94 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Osiris (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/730430 |
| OpenAlex | W4400032941 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
What do the ideas, processes, and products of demography offer to the disability historian? This article attempts to answer this question by exploring the enumeration of disability across selected spaces of the British empire. This article traces the preexisting and coexisting meanings of infirmity in popular and medical discourse in European contexts before describing how the census used infirmity as an umbrella category for selected categories of impairment. I use digitized census returns to briefly examine how disability was negotiated and enumerated and erased at the site of the encounter between the individual householder and the enumerator and describe connections in the census between disability and occupation. The second half of the article describes how disability enumeration was transmitted across the diverse spaces of the British empire through the colonial census, and how there were differences between the metropole and colony in the categories used, and intent behind such enumeration
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Seeking the ‘Truth’ from ‘Enumerating’ Numbers
The Information State in England
Race and the census in the Commonwealth
Questions of language in the commonwealth censuses
The strange history and problematic future of the Australian census
Archival assemblages
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Demography as Policy Science in the British Empire, 1918–1969
Religion in the Census
Empire of Taxonomy
Racial Reorganization and the United States Census 1850-1930
Census Technology, Politics, and Institutional Change, 1790-2020
The Idea of Demographic Transition and the Study of Fertility Change
Social Science and Population Policy
Making History Count
The Politics of Identity and Enumeration in India c. 1600-1990
The Social Construction of Population Science
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |