1st Edition
Intersectional Colonialities Embodied Colonial Violence and Practices of Resistance at the Axis of Disability, Race, Indigeneity, Class, and Gender
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.
