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 …

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

Disability in the global South has garnered some attention in recent years, but rarely from
within disability studies, a field of thought that retains an indiscriminate focus on the global …

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 …

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 …

Cultural diversity and social inequality are often ignored or downplayed in disability
services. Where they are recognized, racial and cultural differences are often essentialized …

This article draws on work in Critical Disability Studies (CDS) to trace continuities between
ableism and colonialism in Canada, and illuminates three ways in which ableist violences …

This article explores the conflations and connections that postcolonial and disability scholars
have drawn between 'race','colonialism'and 'disability'from a historical perspective. By …

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

How do disability culture and the cultural experiences of people with disabilities fit into ideas
about cultural diversity? This chapter uses the experience of settler societies in general, and …