Disability and Colonialism

Karen Soldatic is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow (2016–2019), Institute of Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. This Fellowship, Disability Income Reform and Regional Australia: The Indigenous Experience, draws upon her two previous fellowships: British Academy International Visiting Fellowship (2012) and The Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University (2011–2012) where she remains an Adjunct Fellow.　 Karen's research draws upon almost 20 years of international policy experience, examining the effects of globalisation on disabled people's lives with the neoliberal turn.Shaun Grech is director of The Critical Institute, Malta, visiting fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and editor-in-chief of the international journal, Disability in the Global South (DGS). Shaun is also an activist and practitioner working with disabled people in extreme rural poverty in Latin America.

• Introduction: Disability and colonialism: (dis)encounters and anxious intersectionalities 1. Decolonising Eurocentric disability studies: why colonialism matters in the disability and global South debate 2. Orientalising deafness: race and disability in imperial Britain 3. ‘Let them be young and stoutly set in limbs’: race, labor, and disability in the British Atlantic World 4. Postcolonial reproductions: disability, indigeneity and the formation of the white masculine settler state of Australia 5. WHO’s MIND, whose future? Mental health projects as colonial logics 6. A Foucauldian journey into the islands of the deaf and blind 7. Ain’t I a woman? Female landmine survivors’ beauty pageants and the ethics of staring

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