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Since 2003, RDS has published hundreds of authors from around the world. The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal (RDS) is a quarterly, peer reviewed, open-access journal providing an international forum for folks with disabilities, academics, professionals, artists and creators from all backgrounds and expertise to express ideas relevant to our understanding of the experience of disability.
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Current Issue
Vol. 19 No. 3-4 (2024): Vol. 19 No. 3 & 4: Conversations with Across the Global South; Towards Decolonial Disability Futurities
RDS Special Issue: Conversations with/Across the Global South; Towards Decolonial Disability Futurities (Vol. 19 Nos. 3 & 4 [2024])
New - Welcome Messages by Guest Editors (Issue-in-a-minute)
Xuan Thuy Nguyen Shilpaa Anand Alexis Padilla
Guest Editors: Xuan Thuy Nguyen (Carleton University), Shilpaa Anand (BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus), Alexis Padilla (University of Missouri Saint Louis)
Thinking with Decolonial Disability Studies + Ongoing Global Research
This special double issue offers us new ways to imagine stories of disability and the global South. It invites us to consider how we might rethink and help create more just and inclusive futures that recognize the equal value of global South ways of knowing and anti-ableist practices. Additionally, the issue features other ongoing global research.
Plain language abstracts for all articles are available at: https://rdsjournal.org/index.php/journal/Global-South
Artwork produced by Kiều Thị Phương Anh and Nguyễn Thị Huế within the Engendering Disability-Inclusive Development - Vietnam project. Hanoi, 2023.
From Guest editors: Call for papers: Learning with and from the global South: Emerging insights from decolonial disability work
Published: 2024-08-12
Editorial
Editorial: Special Issue on Global South and Disability
Abstract 220 | WORD Downloads 54 PDF Downloads 176Research Articles and Essays
Beautiful Debilitation: War Injuries as Political Currency in Vietnam and US Relations
Abstract 72 | WORD Downloads 41 PDF Downloads 46Disrupting Fixity: Palestine as Central to Decolonial Disability Justice
Abstract 115 | WORD Downloads 29 PDF Downloads 23Decolonial Disability Futurities From The Global South: Radical Relational Lessons From Glissant
Abstract 88 | WORD Downloads 26 PDF Downloads 66Transnational Global South Informed DisCrit in Teacher Preparation: Boundary-Crossing Between Disability Studies and Communication Sciences
Abstract 107 | WORD Downloads 25 PDF Downloads 69Organizing the Youth Leadership Circle: Lessons Learned across Southern Spaces
Abstract 182 | WORD Downloads 28 PDF Downloads 50Reading Mohini Mohun Majumder’s 'Muk-Shiksha'
Abstract 158 | WORD Downloads 25 PDF Downloads 64Creating Disability as a Category: Perspectives from West Bengal India
Abstract 171 | WORD Downloads 24 PDF Downloads 76Additional Global Research
Inclusive Pedagogy: Rethinking Autistic Students’ Behavior Using Motor Planning and Sensory Regulation
Abstract 125 | WORD Downloads 21 PDF Downloads 63The Right to Love and Be Loved: Sexual Health Education for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Abstract 56 | WORD Downloads 17 PDF Downloads 55In the Forefront: Assessing Public Housing Needs for Persons with Disabilities
Abstract 38 | WORD Downloads 17 PDF Downloads 21Love’s in Sight: Japan’s Graphic Narrative of Blindness
Abstract 126 | WORD Downloads 162 PDF Downloads 47Impairing the Vote: The Effect of State Election Policy on Disabled Voter Turnout
Abstract 45 | WORD Downloads 20 PDF Downloads 73Bridging the Communication Chasm Between Deaf Patients and Masked Medical Professionals
Abstract 61 | WORD Downloads 25 PDF Downloads 26U.S. Postsecondary Students with Disabilities: Where Are They?
Abstract 121 | WORD Downloads 58 PDF Downloads 88Book Review: Authentic Voices in the Discussion of Disability in Kenya: A Review of Disability and Social Justice in Kenya: Scholars, Policymakers, and Activists in Conversation
Abstract 110 | WORD Downloads 27 PDF Downloads 24Notes from the Field
Call for 2025 Pac Rim Presentation Proposals
Abstract 81 | WORD Downloads 29 PDF Downloads 38Dissertation & Abstracts v19i3-4
Abstract 65 | WORD Downloads 30 PDF Downloads 19The Review of Disability Studies (RDS) is a peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal that is targeted towards any person interested in disability studies. We have readers and authors from all over the world. We accept submissions in English of a scholarly nature covering a range of disciplines within disability studies as well as creative works expressing ideas in the area of disability. The RDS journal contains the following sections: 1. Research and Essays; 2. Topical Forums; 3. Creative Works; 4. Global Perspective on Disability Studies; 5. Multi-Media Review; 6. Notes from the Field; 7. Dissertation Abstracts. The journal publishes four issues a year.