Disability and Multilingualism: A Global Perspective
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disability studies, editorial
Abstract
Another issue of our long envisioned, and politically imperative issue of the Global Perspective Section of the journal is here. As we had imagined this section, we hoped to create a space for multilingualism as a framework, political endeavor, accessibility commitment, and a cultural setting where languages appear more than an identity marker or private possession of a community. Creating this section, we have hoped to complicate what it means to be, become, and remain disabled under exploitative social relations and oppressive historical continuities and discontinuities. To this end, we have strived to create a space that challenges what we think as “normative” disability expression, “normative” disabling conditions, and “normative” generational traumas mobilized by colonial, fascist, theocratic, and imperialistic legacies.
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Sona Kazemi, Mills College
Sona Kazemi’s BIO
Dr. Sona Kazemi is currently the Provost’s Research Justice at the Intersections Fellow at the Mills College in Oakland, California. From 2018 to 2020, Sona was the postdoctoral researcher of Migration Studies, Disability Studies, and Medical Humanities at the Ohio State University. Her research program is located in contradictions among transnational disability rights frameworks in the context of global and regional imperialism(s), as well as the proxy wars in the Middle East. Her postdoctoral projects concerns traumatized Yazidi refugees in diaspora and their disability consciousness as survivors of genocide and ethnic cleansing, the mental health of Iranian and Kurdish refugees in the United States who are the survivors of state terror and its implications for international security, Iranian women survivors of acid attack and their disability and feminist consciousness, and punitive limb amputation in Saudi Arabia and Iran. She is also completing a monograph, tentatively titled “Disabling Relations: Injured Bodyminds and Active Witnessing,” based on her dissertation and her two postdoctoral research projects. Sona is the Society for Disability Studies’ 2018 recipient of the honorable mention for the prestigious award of Irving K. Zola Award for emerging scholars in Disability Studies. Sona is currently the associate editor for the Global Ideas' Section at Review of Disability Studies, an International Journal.
Hemachandran Karah, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Dr Hemachandran Karah teaches English Literature at the Humanities and Social sciences faculty. He is interested in researching on themes such as disability, health, the language question, literary criticism, and musicology.
The hallmark of humanities scholarship lies in its rare capacity to enrich responsible worldviews, empathy, justice, and care. Karah’s activism as a teacher and a scholar caters to such a goal. In addition to academic writing, Karah regularly contributes for newspapers and magazines.