Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal

The editor and editorial board of the Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal are pleased to announce a special issue on the Global South and the future of decolonial disability. We are currently soliciting manuscripts of about 6,000 words in length that are due by August 31st, 2023.

Stories about the Global South have historically been told from the perspectives of scholars and activists in the Global North. In recent years, some conversations about disability in the Global South have been told and acknowledged by disability studies scholars. At the same time, most of these stories have been marginalized or deemed irrelevant in disability studies and are often driven by disability theorists from the Global North.

The special issue aims to create a decolonial platform for researchers and activists across the Global North and South to revisit, reclaim, and re-imagine their stories through the lens of decolonial and anti-ableist futures. A critical engagement with the decolonial framework allows us to recognize and acknowledge the contested natures of the Global South as well as the politics of knowledge that have been produced from these spaces.

This special issue will be guest edited by Drs. Xuan Thuy Nguyen, Carleton University, [email protected]; Katie Aubrecht, St. Francis Xavier University, [email protected]; and Shilpaa Anand, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, [email protected].

For more information, please direct your questions to [email protected] or our guest editors.