This book provides a rich synthesis of empirical research and theoretical engagements with questions of disability across different practices of colonialism as historically defined post/de/anti/settler colonialism.
It synthesises, critiques, and expands the boundaries of existing disability research which has been undertaken within different colonial contexts through the rich examination of recent empirical work mapping across disability and its intersectional colonialities. Filling an existing gap within the international literature through embedding the importance of grounding these within scholarly debates of colonialism, it empirically demonstrates the significance of disability for the broader scholarly fields of postcolonial, decolonial, and intersectional theories.
It will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, sociology, critical studies, sociology of race and ethic relations, intersectionality, postcolonial and decolonial studies, and human geography.
0.The relevance of analysing embodied violence and practices of
resistance, contestation, and mobilisation at the axis of disability, race,
indigeneity, class, and gender. 1.Decolonising disability studies:
Conceptualising disability justice from an African community ideal.
2.Racialized and Gendered Ableism: The Epistemic Erasure and Epistemic Labour
of Disability in Transnational Contexts. 3.Trans-Latinidades, disability and
decoloniality: Diasporic and Global South LatDisCrit lessons from Central
America. 4.Degeneracy & Replacement: Reproducing white settler anxieties in
the 21st century. 5.Disabled Romani people in Germany: Learning from the
notion of indigeneity in disability studies outside of Settler-Colonial
states. 6.Africa and the epistemic normativity of disability. 7.Impossible
working lives and disabled bodies during racialised capitalism: Perspectives
from Germany and the UK. 8.Stigma as a structure of disablement: Towards
collective postcolonial justice. 9.Coloniality, disability, and the family in
Kurdistan-Iraq. 10.Raising children with autism in a patriarchal society of a
new liberal state: Experiences of mothers of autistic children in Bangladesh.
11.Disability discourse and Muslim student organisations in Malang,
Indonesia. 12.Migration studies and disability studies: Colonial engagements
past, present and future. 13.Colonial and ableist constructions of
vulnerability shaping the lives of disabled asylum seekers and refugees in
the UK and Germany. 14.Towards a decolonial approach to disability as
knowledge and praxis: Unsettling the colonial and re-imagining research as
spaces of struggles. 15.Reflecting on the How Questions: Using intersectional
methods for policy changes. 16.Cultural humility in participatory research:
Debunking the myth of hard-to-reach groups.
Robel Afeworki Abay is a sociologist and a guest professor of participatory approaches in social and health sciences at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin.
Karen Soldati is a Canadian excellence research chair, Health Equity and Community Wellbeing, Toronto Metropolitan University and Whitlam Fellow at Western Sydney University.
