Publications

Articles in anthologies

Wechuli, Yvonne (in press). Thinking emotions politically in Disability Studies. In Schippers, Alice & Hiskes, Andries (eds.), Thinking Disability Politically: Constructions, Representations, Transformations. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Wechuli, Yvonne (in press). Passing as disabled or non-disabled in front of artificial intelligence? Reflections on Digital Ableism and Different Facets of Passing. In: Leonhardt, Nico & Goldbach, Anne (eds.), Inclusive education with & through AI! Perspectives on educational justice in schools using artificial intelligence. Wiesbaden: Springer.
Wechuli, Yvonne (in print). Environmental justice and ableism - reflections on a field of tension. In: Bräunling, Daniel, Koch, Linda, Schäfer, Jan-Philipp, Silva, Melissa & Zeigermann, Ulrike (eds.), Umkämpftes Nachhaltigkeitswissen. Würzburg: Würzburg University Press.
Eckhardt, Jennifer, Cudak, Karin & Wechuli, Yvonne (in press). Accessibility for whom? Paradoxes of urban participation policies. In Cudak, Karin & Schachler, Viviane (eds.), Impulse und Strategien inklusiver Kommunal- und Regionalentwicklung zur Teilhabe von Menschen mit Behinderungen. Bad Heilbrunn: Julius Klinkhardt
Wechuli, Yvonne & York, Jana (in print). Unlearning unequally distributed emotional labor. In Hauser, Mandy, Schuppener, Saskia, Goldbach, Anne, Hellmann, Helene & Leonhardt, Nico (eds.), Zur (Weiter-)entwicklung Partizipativer Lehre. Questions for theory and practice in a newly developing field. Bielefeld: transcript.
Abay, Robel & Wechuli, Yvonne (2026, n.d.). Participatory research as a decolonial methodology. Collaborative research in the context of disability and flight/migration. In: Ackermann, Timo, Schaefer, Ina, Baer, Gesine & Abay, Robel (eds.), Participatory research approaches in social work, childhood education and health science. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa.
Wechuli, Yvonne (2025). Feeling strategies between self-care and
solidarity. In Schuppener, Saskia, Budde, Jürgen, Boger, May-Anh,
Leonhardt, Nico, Goldbach, Anne, Hackbarth, Anja, Mackert, So & Doğmuş,
Aysun (Eds.), Care and Solidarity. Educational science
Defining the relationship between inclusion and exclusion. Opladen:
Barbara Budrich, pp. 61-72.
York, Jana & Wechuli, Yvonne (2024). (In)visible disabilities at universities. In Dreiack, Stefanie (ed.), (In)visibilities: Diversity at universities. Leipzig: Coordination Office for Equal Opportunities Saxony, pp. 60-68.
Wechuli, Yvonne (2024). Disabling affect. Effects of emotions on life realities from the perspective of Disability Studies. In: Dederich, Markus & Schuppener, Saskia (eds.), Ambivalent Emotions in the Context of Inclusion and (Intellectual) Disability. Bad Heilbrunn: Julius Klinkhardt, pp. 50-64.
Wechuli, Yvonne & Afeworki Abay, Robel (2024). Becoming Indigenous: Learning from the notion of indigeneity in Disability Studies outside of settler-colonial states. Chapter 5. in Afeworki Abay, Robel & Soldatic, Karen (Eds.), Disability Intersectional Colonialities: Theoretical Approaches and Methodological Reflections. London: Routledge, 86-99.
Wechuli, Yvonne (2023). Disabling affects in the university context. Unequally shared emotional labor in an ableist academy. In Leinfellner, Stefanie, Thole, Friederike, Simon, Stephanie & Sehmer, Julian (Eds.), #acertaindegreeofflexibility. "Conditions of knowledge production between qualification, self-optimization & precarization". Opladen: Barbara Budrich, pp. 157-173.
Wechuli, Yvonne & Hirschberg, Marianne (2023). Learning from Postcolonial, Decolonial and Indigenous Studies. A scoping review. In Hoffmann, Thomas & Hoffmann, Mirjam (eds.), IFO 2022: RAUM. POWER. INCLUSION. Researching and developing inclusive spaces. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt, pp. 90-96.
York, Jana & Wechuli, Yvonne (2023). Inequalities in academic spaces: Disabled academics between atypical employment and disclosure dilemmas. In Hoffmann, Thomas & Hoffmann, Mirjam (eds.), IFO 2022: RAUM. POWER. INKLUSION.
Researching and developing inclusive spaces. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt, pp. 183-189.
Afeworki Abay, Robel & Wechuli, Yvonne (2023). "We are here, because you were there": Necropolitics as a Critical Framework for Analizing the Complex Relationship between Colonialism, Forced Migration and Disability. In Delic, Aida, Kourtis, Ioannis, Kytidou, Olga, Sarkodie-Gyan, Sabrina, Wagner, Uta & Zölch, Janina (eds.), Global Contexts, Local Interpretations. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 25-36.
Wechuli, Yvonne (2023). The medicalization of the feelings of disabled people. Symptom of an ableist society. In Schübel, Thomas & Friele, Boris (eds.), Medicalization and social work. Wiesbaden: Springer Nature, pp. 31-46.

Afeworki Abay, Robel; Schülle, Mirjam & Wechuli, Yvonne (2021). Decolonizing Disability: A postcolonial reflection on disability for refugee migration research considering intersectional life realities. In Bach, Miriam, Narawitz, Lena, Schröder, Joachim, Thielen, Marc & Thönneßen, Niklas-Max (eds.), FluchtMigrationsforschung im Widerstreit - Über Ausschlüsse durch Integration. Münster: Waxmann, pp. 115-129.

Runswick-Cole, Katherine; Wechuli, Yvonne & Ktenidis, Antonios (2020). The challenges of thinking with and trough disability in interdisciplinary research. In: Rowland Atkinson & Dan Goodley (eds.) Humanity under duress. Sheffield: Multitude Press, pp. 65-69.

Kuhnke, Yvonne, York, Jana & Diehl, Lis Marie (2016). Daring more DOMOcracy. Possibilities and limits of inclusive seminar design. In Clemens Dannenbeck, Carmen Dorrance, Anna Moldenhauer, Andreas Oehme & Andrea Platte (eds.), Inklusionssensible Hochschule. Fundamentals, approaches and concepts for university didactics and organizational development. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt, 237-252.

Kuhnke, Yvonne, Lusweti, Sellah, Shauri, Halimu & Wacker, Elisabeth (2016). Social impact assessment of livelihood promotion programs in Coastal Kenya. In Ingeborg Hedderich, Erich Graf & Raphael Zahnd (Eds), Participation and Diversity: Challenges of a World Society. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt, 479-485.

Journal articles

Wechuli, Yvonne (2025). Obligatory non-disability, cruel optimism and guilt defense. A cultural studies perspective on emotional reactions to disability. In: People 5-6, 55-59.
Wechuli, Yvonne, Selpulchré Marie & Fritsch, Kelly (2025). Editorial. Affecting, Emoting, and Feeling Disability: Entanglements at the Intersection of Disability Studies and the Sociology of Emotions. In Frontiers of Sociology 10. https://doi.org/ 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1677289
Wechuli, Yvonne (2025). Cripping Auto-/Ethnography. In Frontiers in Sociology. Section Medical Sociology 10, n.p.
Wechuli, Yvonne (2024): Between abjection and fetishization. challenges of writing about emotional othering in Disability Studies. in: eCadernos CES 41, n.p*.
Wechuli, Yvonne (2024). Passing as able-bodyminded, disabled, or supercrip. Acknowledging three facets of a survival strategy in an ableist society. In: Symbolic Interaction.
Wechuli, Yvonne (2023). Medicalizing disabled people's emotions-Symptom of a dis/ableist society. In Frontiers of Sociology 8.
Wechuli, Yvonne (2023). Between Cripping and Reclaiming - how Disability Studies deals strategically with emotions. In Journal for Disability Studies 1/2023.
York, Jana, Wechuli, Yvonne & Karbach, Ute (2022). Emergency Medical Care of peo-ple with learning difficulties. A scoping review. In Open Access Emergency Medicine. 14/2022, pp. 441-456.
Wechuli, Yvonne (2022). Between Cripping and Reclaiming. Epistemological implications of Disability Studies' feeling strategies. In Emotion & Society4(2), pp. 1-19.
Wechuli, Yvonne, Obeka, Bonventure & Dinh, Dominik (2021). Towards epistemic alliances. Reflections on dismantling academic dependency. In: Forum Wissenschaften 38(3), 12-15.
Wechuli, Yvonne (2019). Inklusive Hochschule? In: DDS Zeitschrift der Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft Landesverband Bayern January/February 2019, 14-15.
Schmidt, Kathrin, Wanjala, Stanley & Wechuli, Yvonne (2017). Relevance of socio-cultural aspects in the context of impairment and disability: A first critical look into literature about Kenya. In Behinderung und internationale Entwicklung / Disability and International Development 28(1), 8-11.
Wechuli, Yvonne (2017). Neighborly Assistance: High Expectations of Multi-generation Cohousing Projects. In Working with older People 21(3), 133-139.
Kuhnke, Yvonne (2015). Neighborly assistance. High expectations of multigenerational housing projects in the legal form of cooperatives. In RaumPlanung. 179(3), 20-26.
Kuhnke, Yvonne & York, Jana (2014). Service learning - university didactics for an inclusive society? In Journal for Inclusion. 9(1-2).
Kuhnke, Yvonne & Onana Onana, Anselme (2013). Inclusion of Deaf Patients into Medical Health Care in Cameroon - An Exploratory Study in the Centre Region. In Behinderung und internationale Entwicklung / Disability and International Development, 24(3), 21-26.

Manual article

Wechuli,Yvonne & Eckhardt, Jennifer (2025). Disabling city. In: Eckardt, Frank (ed.), Handbook of Urban Sociology. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Wechuli, Yvonne & Hirschberg, Marianne (2024). Learning from Postcolonial Studies in Disability Studies - a Scoping Review. In Tsitsi Chataika & Dan Goodley (Eds.), The Handbook of Postcolonial Disability Studies. London: Routledge. 63-73.

https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Postcolonial-Disability-Studies/Chataika-Goodley/p/book/9781032316499

Wechuli, Yvonne, Lusweti, Sellah, Shauri, Halimu & Wacker, Elisabeth (2023). Between earning a living and an emancipated social status. Impacts of the promotion of self-employment via Microfinance and other measures of Livelihood Promotion for persons with disabilities. In Sally Robinson & Karen Fisher (eds.), Elgar Handbook on Disability Policy, pp. 771-786.
Dobusch, Laura & Wechuli, Yvonne (2020) Disability Studies. In Astrid Biele Mefebue, Andrea D. Bührmann & Sabine Grenz (eds.), Handbook of Intersectionality. Wiesbaden: VS.

Reviews & conference reports

Wechuli, Yvonne (2022). Ableism in Academia, by Nicole Brown & Jennifer Leigh, London, UCL, 2020, 241 pp., £0 (Open Access PDF), ISBN 9781787354975.
Joch, Michaela & Wechuli, Yvonne (2021). The Society for Disability StudiesConference 2021 at Ohio State University - A Report. In: Journal for Disability Studies 1, 1-5.

Wechuli, Yvonne & Dinh, Dominic (2021). Migration, Flight and Disability, edited by Manuela Westphal & Gudrun Wansing, Wiebaden, Springer, 2019, 326 p., ISBN 978-3-658-15098-3. In VHN 2021(2), 160-161.

Wechuli, Yvonne (2019). Living a feminist life, by Sara Ahmed, Durham, Duke University Press, 2017, 312pp, £20.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8223-6319-4. In Disability & Society 35(1), 170-172.

Wechuli, Yvonne (2019). Strangers in their own land: anger and mourning on the American right, by Arlie Russell Hochschild, New York, The New Press, 2016, 351 pp., £18.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-62097-225-0. In Disability & Society 34(5), 855-857.

Monographs

Wechuli, Yvonne (2026). Perspectives on emotions in Disability Studies. An overview of terms and concepts. Budrich Academic Press. Open Access: https://shop.budrich.de/produkt/perspektiven-auf-gefuehle-in-den-disability-studies/