Shaun Grecha and Karen Soldaticb* aResearch Institute for Health and Social Change,
Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK; bCentre for Social Impact, University …

Disability and postcolonialism are two important, and inter-related, discourses in the social
construction of the nation and those bodies deemed worthy of citizenship rights. This paper …

This paper argues that the dominance of the global North in the universalising and totalising
tendencies of writings about disability has resulted in the marginalisation of these …

The core of this book is to draw from a body of interdisciplinary analyses for the development
of disability studies. In line with the object of this text, this chapter unpacks the political …

Global guesstimates suggest that around 80 per cent of the planet's 650 million disabled
people are located in the so-called Global South, the bulk in rural areas and most suffer the …

In the realm of disability studies, an increasing number of academics are engaging with the
promises of postcolonial scholarship. Writers such as Barker and Murray (2010), Erevelles …

An analysis informed by anticolonial principles “challenges the normalizing gaze of the
dominant in the construction of what constitutes valid knowledge and experience.”(Kempf …

The turn to 'the global'in disability studies has been necessitated by broader developments
in social theory, including a thoroughgoing critique of the liberal rights-bearing subject; and …

In this article, a radical social model of disability lens is taken to illustrate what counts as
'disability'within a neoliberal mindset. The South African and disabled activist Vic Finkelstein …

Re-making disability studies from the global South requires a major reconsideration of
concepts. Southern perspectives are emerging across the social sciences and humanities …