This first-of-its kind volume spans the breadth of disability research
and practice specifically focusing on the global South. Established and
emerging scholars alongside advocates adopt a critical and
interdisciplinary stance to probe, challenge and shift common held
social understandings of disability in established discourses,
epistemologies and practices, including those in prominent areas such as
global health, disability studies and international development.
Motivated by decolonizing approaches, contributors carefully weave the
lived and embodied experiences of disabled people, families and
communities through contextual, cultural, spatial, racial, economic,
identity and geopolitical complexities and heterogeneities.
Dispatches from Ghana, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Venezuela among
many others spotlight the complex uncertainties of modern geopolitics of
coloniality; emergent forms of governance including neoliberal
globalization, war and conflicts; the interstices of gender, race,
ethnicity, space and religion; structural barriers to redistribution and
realization of rights; and processes of disability representation. This
handbook examines in rigorous depth, established practices and
discourses in disability including those on development, rights,
policies and practices, opening a space for critical debate on hegemonic
and often unquestioned terrains.
Highlights of the coverage include:
- Critical issues in conceptualizing disability across cultures, time
and space
The challenges of disability models, metrics and statistics
Disability, poverty and livelihoods in urban and rural contexts
Disability interstices with migration, race, ethnicity, ge
nder and sexuality
Disabilit
y, religion and customary societies and practice
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The UNCRPD, disability rights orientations and instrumentalitie
- Redistributive systems including budgeting, cash transfer systems and
programming.
- Global South-North partnerships: intercultural methodologies in
disability research.
This much awaited handbook provides students, academics, practitioners
and policymakers with an authoritative framework for critical thinking
and debate about disability, while pushing theoretical and practical
frontiers in unprecedented ways.
