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This concluding chapter reviews the concepts emerging throughout the book and their implications in the field of disability and development. It also explores the potential of participatory research, informed by postcolonial theory and working together with disabled people, in challenging their long-standing oppression. The first section of the chapter summarises the main ideas presented in the preceding chapters. The second one then reviews the implications of the findings in relation to the significance of postcolonial approaches to disability. In the third section, the implications of these concepts are reviewed in relation to the practice and politics of development in Burkina Faso, in other sub-Saharan African countries and in the wider Global South contexts. The concluding section reflects on potential pathways for future research and practice in the field of disability and development, and why these matter.
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Bezzina, L. (2020). Disabled People in Development: What Future?. In: Disability and Development in Burkina Faso. Palgrave Studies in Disability and International Development. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24678-5_7
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