ABSTRACT
This chapter aims at approaching the global dynamics of the ‘decolonising’ tendency in disability studies from a particular geopolitical point of view: disability politics and disability studies in Poland after the democratic transition of 1989. The question of disability in Central and Eastern Europe is often marginalised in discussion on the necessity to decolonise the global disability perspective, which is profoundly influenced by Western epistemology of disability. This chapter provides an analysis of the influence of the global on evolving disability politics and emerging critical disability scholarships in Poland, as well as an analysis of the process of constructing local emancipatory projects.
