Editorial: Special Issue on Global South and Disability
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disability, global south
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This editorial provides an overview of the Special Issue: Global South and Disability and outlines its purpose and the content of the issue.
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Xuan Thuy Nguyen, Carleton University
Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University in Canada. She is the director of a partnership project, entitled Learning with and from the global South: Opportunities for engaging girls & young women with disabilities across Southern spaces (ENGAGE), funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) [2021-2024]. She is also the founder of the Decolonial Disability Studies Collective (DDSC) at Carleton University, Principal Investigator of the SSHRC-funded project Transforming Disability Knowledge, Research, and Activism [2016-2020], and co-investigator of the Engendering Disability Inclusive Development [2020-2027]. Her work has been published in many peer-reviewed journals such as Disability & Society, Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, Disability and the Global South, Global Studies of Childhood, Foucault Studies, and Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. She is author of The Journey to Inclusion (2015, Sense/Brill Publishers).
Shilpaa Anand, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus
Shilpaa Anand teaches in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus. She has a PhD in Disability Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Masters in English from the University of Hyderabad. Her research focuses on the historiography of disability, culturally different concepts of corporeality and disability access in Indian higher education.
Alexis Padilla, Research Affiliate, CERC in Health Equity and Community Wellbeing, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada
Dr. Alexis Padilla is a disabled lawyer, sociologist, theologian and educator born and
raised in the Global South. His first solo book, Disability, Intersectional Agency and
Latinx Identity, was published by Routledge in 2021. Dr. Padilla’s most recent volume is
currently under contract under the title: Decolonial Disability and Social Epistemologies.
As scholar and disability activist, Dr. Padilla pursues a blend of actionable ideas and
interdisciplinary theories which aim to enhance intersectional disability justice and
decolonial projects helpful in bridging Global North and Global South contexts toward
cross-coalitional movement building and emancipatory learning endeavors.