Decolonial Disability Futurities From The Global South: Radical Relational Lessons From Glissant

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Alexis Padilla

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decolonial disability, agentic intersectionality, relational becoming

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This essay explores decolonial disability futurities through the lens of Glissant’s notions of creolization and opacity. The author pursues bridging of global south and global north context, stressing the need for relational cross-coalitional approaches for an ethics, epistemology and politics meaningful across various intersectional subalternity categories.




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