1st Edition
Intersectional Colonialities Embodied Colonial Violence and Practices of Resistance at the Axis of Disability, Race, Indigeneity, Class, and Gender
This book provides a rich synthesis of empirical research and theoretical engagements with questions of disability across different practices of colonialism as historically defined – post/de/anti/settler colonialism.
It synthesises, critiques, and expands the boundaries of existing disability research which has been undertaken within different colonial contexts through the rich examination of recent empirical work mapping across disability and its intersectional colonialities. Filling an existing gap within the international literature through embedding the importance of grounding these within scholarly debates of colonialism, it empirically demonstrates the significance of disability for the broader scholarly fields of postcolonial, decolonial, and intersectional theories.
It will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, sociology, critical studies, sociology of race and ethic relations, intersectionality, postcolonial and decolonial studies, and human geography.
Introduction – The relevance of analysing embodied violence and practices of resistance, contestation, and mobilisation at the axis of disability, race, indigeneity, class, and gender
Robel Afeworki Abay and Karen Soldatić
Chapter 1 – Decolonising disability studies: Conceptualising disability justice from an African community ideal
Oche Onazi
Chapter 2 – Racialized and gendered ableism: The epistemic erasure and epistemic labour of disability in transnational contexts
Nirmala Erevelles and Robel Afeworki Abay
Chapter 3 – Trans-Latinidades, disability and decoloniality: Diasporic and Global South LatDisCrit lessons from Central America
Alexis Padilla
Chapter 4 – Degeneracy and replacement: Reproducing white settler anxieties in the 21st century
Madi Day
Chapter 5 – Disabled Romani people in Germany: Learning from the notion of indigeneity in disability studies outside of settler-colonial states
Yvonne Wechuli and Robel Afeworki Abay
Chapter 6 – Africa and the epistemic normativity of disability
Elvis Imafidon and Kenneth Uyi Abudu
Chapter 7 – Impossible working lives and disabled Bodyminds during racialized capitalism: Perspectives from Germany and the United Kingdom
Robel Afeworki Abay and Maria Berghs
Chapter 8 – Stigma as a structure of disablement: Towards collective postcolonial justice
Valérie Grand’Maison and Karen Soldatić
Chapter 9 – Coloniality, disability, and the family in Kurdistan-Iraq
M. Lynn Rose
Chapter 10 – Raising children with autism in a patriarchal society of a new liberal state: Experiences of mothers of autistic children in Bangladesh
Sharin Shajahan Naomi
Chapter 11 – Disability discourse and Muslim student organisations in Malang, Indonesia
Slamet Thohari, Titi Fitrianita and Ucca Arawindha
Chapter 12 – Migration studies and disability studies: Colonial engagements past, present and future
Nicola Burns
Chapter 13 – Colonial and ableist constructions of ‘vulnerability’ shaping the lives of disabled asylum seekers and refugees in the United Kingdom and Germany
Rebecca Yeo and Robel Afeworki Abay
Chapter 14 – Towards a decolonial approach to disability as knowledge and praxis: Unsettling the ‘colonial’ and re-imagining research as spaces of struggles
Xuan Thuy Nguyen
Chapter 15 – Reflecting on the how questions: Using intersectional methods for policy changes
Deborah Stienstra
Chapter 16 – Cultural humility in participatory research: Debunking the myth of ‘hard-to-reach’ groups
Robel Afeworki Abay and Hella von Unger
Biography
Robel Afeworki Abay is a sociologist and a guest professor of participatory approaches in social and health sciences at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin.
Karen Soldatić is a Canadian excellence research chair, Health Equity and Community Wellbeing, Toronto Metropolitan University and Whitlam Fellow at Western Sydney University.
