ABSTRACT
This book centres and explores postcolonial theory, which looks at issues of power, economics, politics, religion and culture and how these elements work in relation to colonial supremacy. It argues that disability is a constitutive material presence in many postcolonial societies and that progressive disability politics arise from postcolonial concerns. By drawing these two subjects together, this handbook challenges oppression, voicelessness, stereotyping, undermining, neo-colonisation and postcolonisation and bridges binary debate between global North and the global South.
The book is divided into eight sections
- Setting the Scene
- Decolonising Disability Studies
- Postcolonial Theory, Inclusive Development
- Postcolonial Disability Studies and Disability Activism
- Postcolonial Disability and Childhood Studies
- Postcolonial Disability Studies and Education
- Postcolonial Disability Studies, Gender, Race and Religion
- Conclusion
And comprised of 27 newly written chapters, this book leads with postcolonial perspectives – closely followed by an engagement with critical disability studies – with the explicit aim of foregrounding these contributions; pulling them in from the edges of empirical and theoretical work where they often reside in mainstream academic literature.
The book will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies and postcolonial studies as well as those working in sociology, literature and development studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|12 pages
Setting the Scene
part II|62 pages
Decolonising Disability Studies
chapter 142|9 pages
The Coloniality of Disability
chapter 5|13 pages
Decolonising of the Global
chapter 6|12 pages
Learning from Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Theory and Indigenous Studies in Disability Studies
part III|40 pages
Postcolonial Theory and Inclusive Development
chapter 767|13 pages
Decolonising Disability-Inclusive Development
chapter 8|13 pages
Rethinking the Smart City as Postcolonial Technology
part IV|56 pages
Postcolonial Disability Studies and Disability Activism
chapter 11610|12 pages
‘But I Never Think of You Like That’
chapter 11|12 pages
Some Faces of Power and of Those Who Face Them
chapter 12|18 pages
‘Who am I to Write This?’
chapter 13|12 pages
Changing Religio-Cultural Identities of South Asian Disabled Youth
part V|30 pages
Postcolonial Theory and Childhood Studies
chapter 17214|17 pages
The Four Stories
part VI|78 pages
Postcolonial Disability Studies and Education
chapter 20216|10 pages
‘There is No Lack of Knowledge of What Could and Should be Done …’
chapter 17|16 pages
Decolonising Inclusive Education
chapter 20|13 pages
Postcolonial Disability, Childhood and Education Studies Inclusive Education in a Post-Soviet Context
part VII|58 pages
Postcolonial Disability Studies, Gender, Race and Religion
chapter 23|12 pages
‘Alternative Explanations’
chapter 24|10 pages
Accessibility and the Common
chapter 26|12 pages
Filipino Deaf Culture Through Postcolonial Perspectives
part VIII|14 pages
Conclusion