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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. 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

Xuan Thuy Nguyen, Shilpaa Anand, Alexis Padilla
Abstract 602 | WORD Downloads 189 PDF Downloads 293

Research Articles and Essays

Disrupting Fixity: Palestine as Central to Decolonial Disability Justice

Laura Jaffee, Lara Sheehi
Abstract 343 | WORD Downloads 103 PDF Downloads 107

Organizing the Youth Leadership Circle: Lessons Learned across Southern Spaces

Xuan Thuy Nguyen, Nhi Truong, Dana Corfield
Abstract 425 | WORD Downloads 132 PDF Downloads 126

Reading Mohini Mohun Majumder’s 'Muk-Shiksha'

TIRTHA Deb
Abstract 305 | WORD Downloads 106 PDF Downloads 110

Creating Disability as a Category: Perspectives from West Bengal India

Nandini Ghosh, Suchandra Bhaduri
Abstract 561 | WORD Downloads 155 PDF Downloads 168

Additional Global Research

Inclusive Pedagogy: Rethinking Autistic Students’ Behavior Using Motor Planning and Sensory Regulation

Sara Scribner, Chelsea P. Tracy-Bronson
Abstract 293 | WORD Downloads 100 PDF Downloads 149

In the Forefront: Assessing Public Housing Needs for Persons with Disabilities

G. Lawrence Farmer, Henry J. Davis, Janna C. Heyman, Susan Matloff-Nieves, Peggy L. Kelly, Smita Dewan, Nancy Wackstein , Dalys Castro
Abstract 128 | WORD Downloads 87 PDF Downloads 53

Love’s in Sight: Japan’s Graphic Narrative of Blindness

Yoshiko Okuyama, Osamu Kurikawa
Abstract 289 | WORD Downloads 274 PDF Downloads 130

Impairing the Vote: The Effect of State Election Policy on Disabled Voter Turnout

April Johnson, Wyatt Dunlap
Abstract 179 | WORD Downloads 105 PDF Downloads 126

U.S. Postsecondary Students with Disabilities: Where Are They?

Z.W. Taylor, Ibrahim Bicak
Abstract 362 | WORD Downloads 229 PDF Downloads 156

Notes from the Field

Call for 2025 Pac Rim Presentation Proposals

Sandra Oshiro
Abstract 234 | WORD Downloads 126 PDF Downloads 81

Dissertation & Abstracts v19i3-4

Abstract 226 | WORD Downloads 135 PDF Downloads 43
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The 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.