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Southern Bodies and Disability: re-thinking concepts

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Re-making disability studies from the global South requires a major reconsideration of concepts. Southern perspectives are emerging across the social sciences and humanities, and are now an important resource for disability studies. Impairment has to be understood in the context of the violence of colonisation and neocolonial power. The global dynamics of capitalist accumulation, and of hierarchical gender relations, change the material character and meaning of disability. Global society has to be understood as embodied, and social embodiment as a reality-forming (ontoformative) process, not a system-maintaining one. The intellectual, cultural and social resources of colonised and postcolonial societies provide vital resources for disability politics.

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  • Raewyn Connell, 2011. "Southern Bodies and Disability: re-thinking concepts," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(8), pages 1369-1381.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:32:y:2011:i:8:p:1369-1381
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2011.614799
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    2. Roseline Onego, 2022. "The Impact of Resource Availability on Educational Inclusion of Students Living with Disabilities in Public Universities in Kenya," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 6(11), pages 964-972, November.
    3. Puszka, Stefanie & Walsh, Corinne & Markham, Francis & Barney, Jody & Yap, Mandy & Dreise, Tony, 2022. "Towards the decolonisation of disability: A systematic review of disability conceptualisations, practices and experiences of First Nations people of Australia," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 305(C).
    4. Robert Richter & Filip Maric, 2022. "Ecological Bodies and Relational Anatomies: Toward a Transversal Foundation for Planetary Health Education," Challenges, MDPI, vol. 13(2), pages 1-13, August.

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