Disability in the Global South

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxviii

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2. Placing Disability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Disability and Development: Critical Connections, Gaps and Contradictions

      • Shaun Grech

      Pages 3-19

   3. Disability and Global Health

      • Leslie Swartz, Jason Bantjes

      Pages 21-33

   4. Disability Studies: Developments in Anthropology

      • James Staples, Nilika Mehrotra

      Pages 35-49

   5. Counting Disabled People: Historical Perspectives and the Challenges of Disability Statistics

      • Arne H. Eide, Mitchell Loeb

      Pages 51-68

   6. The Place of Disability

      • Dan Goodley, Leslie Swartz

      Pages 69-83

   7. From ‘Sensing Disability’ to Seselelame: Non-dualistic Activist Orientations in Twenty-First-Century Accra

      • Kathryn Linn Geurts, Sefakor G. M. A. Komabu-Pomeyie

      Pages 85-98

   8. Playing Disability, Performing Gender: Militarised Masculinity and Disability Theatre in the Sri Lankan War and Its Aftermath

      • Neloufer de Mel

      Pages 99-116

   9. Religion After the Medical Miracle: Recovering “Disability” as Religious Analytic of Social Suffering

      • Sharon V. Betcher, Mary Nyangweso Wangila

      Pages 117-129

3. Connecting Disability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. Livelihoods and Disability: The Complexities of Work in the Global South

      • Jill Hanass-Hancock, Sophie Mitra

      Pages 133-149

   3. Begging and Disability: A Paradigmatic Way to Earn One’s Living

      • Carolina Ferrante, Eduardo Joly

      Pages 151-166

   4. Don’t Forget Us, We Are Here Too! Listening to Disabled Children and Their Families Living in Poverty

      • Mary Wickenden, Jean Elphick

      Pages 167-185

   5. Questioning Human Rights: The Case of Education for Children and Youth with Disabilities in Ethiopia

      • Hisayo Katsui, Elina Lehtomaki, Abebe Yehualawork Malle, Shuaib Chalklen

      Pages 187-198

   6. Reflexive Re-storying of Inclusive Education: Evidence from India and South Africa

      • Nidhi Singal, Nithi Muthukrishna

      Pages 199-216

   7. Disability and Poverty: Complex Interactions and Critical Reframings

      • Shaun Grech

      Pages 217-235

   8. Disablism, Deprivation and Selfhood: Imagining the Subjective Nature of Oppression in Worlds of Poverty

      • Brian Watermeyer, Sumaya Mall

      Pages 237-252

4. Intersectionalities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 253-253

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   2. Race, Ethnicity and Disability: Charting Complex and Intersectional Terrains

      • Deborah Stienstra, Leon Nyerere

      Pages 255-268

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

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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.

• WHO World Report on Disability
• disability and global health
• disability and poverty
• disability in global south
• inclusive communities
• international disability policy

• Centre for Global Disability Research, The Critical Institute, Attard, Malta

  Shaun Grech

• Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, New South Wales, Australia

  Karen Soldatic

Shaun Grech (Phd) is Director of The Critical Institute and Global Disability Watch. He is also Visiting Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University and editor-in-chief of the international journal Disability & the Global South.
Karen Soldatic (PhD) is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow (2016–2019), Institute of Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. She is the Head of Research, Global Disability Watch, and Affiliate Fellow at The Critical Institute, Malta and Centre for Disability Research, Policy and Practice, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.