This first-of-its kind volume spans the breadth of disability research and practice
specifically focusing on the global South. Established and emerging scholars alongside
advocates adopt a critical and interdisciplinary stance to probe challenge and shift common
held social understandings of disability in established discourses epistemologies and
practices including those in prominent areas such as global health disability studies and
international development. Motivated by decolonizing approaches contributors carefully weave
the lived and embodied experiences of disabled people families and communities through
contextual cultural spatial racial economic identity and geopolitical complexities and
heterogeneities. Dispatches from Ghana Lebanon Sri Lanka Cambodia Venezuela among many
others spotlight the complex uncertainties of modern geopolitics of coloniality emergent forms
of governance including neoliberal globalization war and conflicts the interstices of gender
race ethnicity space and religion structural barriers to redistribution and realization of
rights and processes of disability representation. This handbook examines in rigorous depth
established practices and discourses in disability including those on development rights
policies and practices opening a space for critical debate on hegemonic and often unquestioned
terrains.Highlights of the coverage include:Critical issues in conceptualizing disability
across cultures time and space The challenges of disability models metrics and statistics
Disability poverty and livelihoods in urban and rural contexts Disability interstices with
migration race ethnicity gender and sexuality Disability religion and customary societies
and practice The UNCRPD disability rights orientations and instrumentalitie· Redistributive
systems including budgeting cash transfer systems and programming.· Global South-North
partnerships: intercultural methodologies in disability research.This much awaited handbook
provides students academics practitioners and policymakers with an authoritative framework
for critical thinking and debate about disability while pushing theoretical and practical
frontiers in unprecedented ways.
