1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Disability Studies
This book centres and explores postcolonial theory, which looks at issues of power, economics, politics, religion and culture and how these elements work in relation to colonial supremacy. It argues that disability is a constitutive material presence in many postcolonial societies and that progressive disability politics arise from postcolonial concerns. By drawing these two subjects together, this handbook challenges oppression, voicelessness, stereotyping, undermining, neo-colonisation and postcolonisation and bridges binary debate between global North and the global South.
The book is divided into eight sections
- Setting the Scene
- Decolonising Disability Studies
- Postcolonial Theory, Inclusive Development
- Postcolonial Disability Studies and Disability Activism
- Postcolonial Disability and Childhood Studies
- Postcolonial Disability Studies and Education
- Postcolonial Disability Studies, Gender, Race and Religion
- Conclusion
And comprised of 27 newly written chapters, this book leads with postcolonial perspectives – closely followed by an engagement with critical disability studies – with the explicit aim of foregrounding these contributions; pulling them in from the edges of empirical and theoretical work where they often reside in mainstream academic literature.
The book will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies and postcolonial studies as well as those working in sociology, literature and development 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.
