The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Disability Studies

PART I Setting the Scene

1. Introduction: Unpacking Postcolonial Disability Studies

Tsitsi Chataika and Dan Goodley

PART II Decolonising Disability Studies

2. The Coloniality of Disability: Analysing Intersectional Colonialities and Subaltern Resistance

Robel Afeworki Abay and Karen Soldatic

3. Latin American Decolonial Thought on Disability? Approaches to a Field Under Construction

Beatriz Revuelta and Raynier Hernández

4. Using the Perspective of ‘Peopleship’ to Conceptualise Disability in China

Dong Lin, Susan Levy and Fiona Kumari Campbell

5. Decolonising of the Global: Reflections on Constructing Local Emancipatory Projects and Influence of Western Epistemology of Disability

Klaudia Muca

6. Learning from Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Theory and Indigenous Studies in Disability Studies: A Scoping Review

Yvonne Wechuli and Marianne Hirschberg

PART III Postcolonial Theory and Inclusive Development

7. Decolonising Disability-Inclusive Development: The USAID and DFID as Case Studies

Ana María Sánchez Rodríguez

8. Rethinking the Smart City as Postcolonial Technology: The Case of the Smart Nation of Singapore

Kuansong Victor Zhuang and Gerard Goggin

9. Africanising Neurodiversity: A Postcolonial View

Ndakaitei Manase

PART IV Postcolonial Disability Studies and Disability Activism

10. ‘But I Never Think of You Like That’: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Difference, Deviance and Defiance as a Disabled Psychologist

Clare Harvey

11. Some Faces of Power and of Those Who Face Them: Thoughts and Narratives on the Perpetuity of Being Disabled, Enabled and Empowered in Post/Colonial Times

Maria Rita Hoffmann and Maria Magdolna Flamich

12. ‘Who am I to Write This?’: An Approach to the Field of Feminist Disability Studies in Latin America

Constanza López Radrigán and Florencia Herrera

13. Changing Religio-Cultural Identities of South Asian Disabled Youth: Accessibility, Assimilation and Discrimination

Krishan Anil Chadha and Rittika Dasgupta

PART V Postcolonial Theory and Childhood Studies

14. The Four Stories: The Production and Maintenance of Indigenous Childhood Disability and Illness on Turtle Island

Fiona J. Moola, Madalyn Murray, Dyan Roy and Ronald Buliung

15. Traditional Children’s Games in India: Unlearning the Attributes of Subordination

Tanmoy Bhattacharya

PART VI Postcolonial Disability Studies and Education

16. ‘There is No Lack of Knowledge of What Could and Should be Done …’: The Ambivalence of Special Education in Late Colonial and Postcolonial India

Tirtha Pratim Deb

17. Decolonising Inclusive Education: New Approaches for Disability Education Policy and Practices

Francesca Peruzzo and Julie Allan

18. Disabling Postcolonialism by Decolonising Deaf Education in Zimbabwe

Martin Musengi and Esther Musengi

19. Interrogating Postcolonial Disability Studies to Inform the Education of Persons with Disabilities and Promoting Social Justice in Post-Independent Zimbabwe

Rangarirai Dube

20. Postcolonial Disability, Childhood and Education Studies Inclusive Education in a Post-Soviet Context: A Case of Azerbaijan

Turanə Abdullayeva

21. Advancing Indigenous Inclusive Practices in a Postcolonial Education Milieu

Olusola Ogundola

PART VII Postcolonial Disability Studies, Gender, Race and Religion

22. Race, Genetics and Disablement: Colonial Longings for Racial Certainty

Harshad Keval

23. ‘Alternative Explanations’: Literary Representations of Disability in Sub-Saharan Africa

Charlotte Baker and Ken Junior Lipenga

24. Accessibility and the Common: Decolonising Disability and Constructing Crip/Care in Senegalese Urban Arts

Julie Van Dam

25. Blindness in Postcolonial Literature: Coetzee, Mehta and Recognition

Christopher Krentz

26. Filipino Deaf Culture Through Postcolonial Perspectives: Colonisation of the Senses and the Hegemony of Language

Eri Yamasita

PART VIII Conclusion

27. Conclusions: Towards Decolonisation and Depathologisation

Dan Goodley and Tsitsi Chataika

Biography

Tsitsi Chataika is the Disability Inclusion Advisor for CBM-Global Disability Inclusion (Zimbabwe). She is also Associate Professor of Inclusive Education and Disability Inclusion on Leave of Absence in the Department of Educational Foundations at the University of Zimbabwe.

Dan Goodley is a Professor of disability studies and education at the School of Education, University of Sheffield. Dan co-directs iHuman, which includes a community of Critical Disability Studies researchers.