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 * 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.
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