About the Journal
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. The journal is published by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Center on Disability Studies.
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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 497 | WORD Downloads 158 PDF Downloads 272Research Articles and Essays
Beautiful Debilitation: War Injuries as Political Currency in Vietnam and US Relations
Abstract 264 | WORD Downloads 141 PDF Downloads 133Disrupting Fixity: Palestine as Central to Decolonial Disability Justice
Abstract 280 | WORD Downloads 80 PDF Downloads 83Decolonial Disability Futurities From The Global South: Radical Relational Lessons From Glissant
Abstract 360 | WORD Downloads 129 PDF Downloads 140Transnational Global South Informed DisCrit in Teacher Preparation: Boundary-Crossing Between Disability Studies and Communication Sciences
Abstract 224 | WORD Downloads 116 PDF Downloads 111Organizing the Youth Leadership Circle: Lessons Learned across Southern Spaces
Abstract 398 | WORD Downloads 114 PDF Downloads 123Reading Mohini Mohun Majumder’s 'Muk-Shiksha'
Abstract 273 | WORD Downloads 89 PDF Downloads 109Creating Disability as a Category: Perspectives from West Bengal India
Abstract 436 | WORD Downloads 121 PDF Downloads 150Additional Global Research
Inclusive Pedagogy: Rethinking Autistic Students’ Behavior Using Motor Planning and Sensory Regulation
Abstract 269 | WORD Downloads 88 PDF Downloads 139The Right to Love and Be Loved: Sexual Health Education for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Abstract 309 | WORD Downloads 89 PDF Downloads 120In the Forefront: Assessing Public Housing Needs for Persons with Disabilities
Abstract 107 | WORD Downloads 78 PDF Downloads 46Love’s in Sight: Japan’s Graphic Narrative of Blindness
Abstract 253 | WORD Downloads 252 PDF Downloads 116Impairing the Vote: The Effect of State Election Policy on Disabled Voter Turnout
Abstract 153 | WORD Downloads 89 PDF Downloads 122Bridging the Communication Chasm Between Deaf Patients and Masked Medical Professionals
Abstract 159 | WORD Downloads 127 PDF Downloads 68U.S. Postsecondary Students with Disabilities: Where Are They?
Abstract 302 | WORD Downloads 192 PDF Downloads 136Book 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 248 | WORD Downloads 102 PDF Downloads 39Notes from the Field
Call for 2025 Pac Rim Presentation Proposals
Abstract 195 | WORD Downloads 102 PDF Downloads 74Dissertation & Abstracts v19i3-4
Abstract 189 | WORD Downloads 108 PDF Downloads 38The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal (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.