Resources
Decoloniality: theories and concepts
Appadurai, A. (2021). The future of post-colonial thought. The Nation. Retrieved from
Mignolo, W., (2017). Coloniality Is Far from Over, and So Must Be Decoloniality. Afterall. 43. 38-45. 10.1086/692552. Retrieved from
Mignolo, W. D., & Walsh, C. E. (2018). On decoloniality: Concepts, analytics, praxis. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Mignolo, W. (2017). Interview 鈥 Walter Mignolo/Part 1: Activism and Trajectory. E-International relations. Retrieved from
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S.J. (2020). The cognitive empire, politics of knowledge and African intellectual productions: reflections on struggles for epistemic freedom and resurgence of decolonisation in the twenty-first century. Third World Quarterly, 42, 882 – 901. Retrieved from
Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities
Convention on the rights of persons with Disabilities (CRPD) Enable. (n.d.). Retrieved August 26, 2021, from
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is an international human rights treaty that came into force in 2008. The aim of the convention is to promote and protect the human rights of persons with disabilities, and it covers a vast array of rights including accessibility, recognition before the law and legal capacity, and the rights to family, education, health and work, among others. The negotiations and development of the CRPD were unlike previous treaty-development processes, as those people protected by the treaty (people with disabilities from around the world) played a crucial role in creating the focus, shape and content of the document.
Critiques of the CRPD
Meekosha, H., & Soldatic, K. (2011). Human rights and the Global South: The case of disability. Third World Quarterly, 32(8), 1383-1397.
Soldatic, K., & Grech, S. (2014). Transnationalising disability studies: Rights, justice and impairment. Disability Studies Quarterly, 34(2). Retrieved from
Academic journals and articles听
African Journal of Disability
African Journal of Disability. (n.d.). Retrieved August 26, 2021, from
The African Journal of Disability is an open access journal committed to the discussion of issues and experiences relating to the interfaces between disability, poverty and practices of exclusion and marginalization in the African context.
Disability and the Global South
Disability and the Global South. (n.d.). Retrieved August 26, 2021, from
Disability and the Global South (DGS) is the first peer reviewed international journal committed to publishing high quality work focused exclusively on all aspects of the disability experience in the global South. It provides an interdisciplinary platform prioritizing material that is critical, challenging, and engaging from a range of epistemological perspectives and disciplines.
Indian Journal of Critical Disability Studies
Indian Journal of Critical Disability Studies. (2020, June 10). Retrieved from
The Indian Journal of Critical Disability Studies (InJCDS) is an open-source, online, international peer-reviewed journal published twice a year (January and July).
InJCDS focusses on bringing forth original research on disability issues that emerge from examining both the political and the personal aspects of individuals, collectives, and the systemic. InJCDS is interested in arguments against or in favour of the idea that both the universal and the specific are essential. InJCDS is especially keen on research highlighting the unavoidable intersectional dimensions of class, gender, caste, hemisphere (with a focus on south Asia), and technology in relation to disability. We encourage constant questioning of binaries, of categories, of foundational positions of others and ours.
InJCDS is the journal of Critical Disability Studies in India (CDSI) society that was founded in 2012 and has been organising intensive reading sessions in and around universities since then.
Articles
Araneda-Urrutia, C., & Infante, M. (2020). Assemblage Theory and Its Potentialities for Dis/ability Research in the Global South. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 22(1), 340鈥350. Available at
Bannink Mbazzi, F., Nalugya, R., Kawesa, E., Nambejja, H., Nizeyimana, P., Ojok, P., 鈥 Seeley, J. (2020). 鈥極buntu Bulamu鈥 鈥 Development and Testing of an Indigenous Intervention for Disability Inclusion in Uganda. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 22(1), 403鈥416. Available at
Chhabra, G. (2020). Insider, Outsider or an In-Betweener? Epistemological Reflections of a Legally Blind Researcher on Conducting Cross-National Disability Research. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 22(1), 307鈥317. Available at
Dang, T. L. (2019). Empowerment Through Participation in Vietnam: A Personal Experience of Taking Back the Pride of Disability. Canadian Journal on Children鈥檚 Rights. 6(1), pp. 213-226. Available at
Dirth, T. P., & Adams, G. A. (2019). Decolonial Theory and Disability Studies: On the Modernity/Coloniality of Ability. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 7(1), 260-289. Available at
Grech, S. (2015). Decolonising Eurocentric disability studies: Why colonialism matters in the disability and global South debate. Social Identities, 21(1), 6-21. Available at
Grischow, J., Naami, A., Mprah, W., & Mfoafo-M鈥機arthy, M. (2021). Methodologically Thinking: Doing Disability Research in Ghanaian Cultural Communities. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 23(1), 169鈥179. Available at
Jaffee, L. & Kelsey J. (2018). Disabling Bodies of/and Land: Reframing Disability Justice in Conversation with Indigenous Theory and Activism. Disability and the Global South, 5(2), 1407-1429. Available at https://disabilityglobalsouth.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/dgs_05_02_04.pdf Katsui, H., & Swartz, L. (2021). Research Methods and Practices of Doing Disability Studies in the Global South. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 23(1), 204-206. Available at
Katsui, H., & Swartz, L. (2021). Research Methods and Practices of Doing Disability Studies in the Global South. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 23(1), 204-206. Available at
Meekosha, H. (2011). Decolonising disability: Thinking and acting globally. Disability & Society, 26(6), 667-682. Available at
Nguyen, X. T., & Stienstra, D. (2021). Engaging girls and women with disabilities in the global South: Beyond cultural and geopolitical generalizations. Disability and the Global South, 8(2), 2035-2052. Available at
Nguyen, X. T., Gonick, M., & Bui, T. (2021). Engaging girls with disabilities through cellphilming: Reflections on participatory visual research as a means of countering violence in the Global South. Global Studies of Childhood. Available at
Nguyen, X. T., Dang, T. L., & Mitchell, C. (2021). How can girls with disabilities become activists in their own lives? Creating opportunities for policy dialogue through 鈥榢nowledge mobilization spaces鈥. Agenda, 1-13. Available at
Nguyen, X. T., Stienstra, D., Gonick, M., Do, H., & Huynh, N. (2019). Unsettling research versus activism: how might critical disability studies disrupt traditional research boundaries? Disability & Society, 34(7-8), 1042-1061.
Soldatic, K., Sullivan, C., Briskman, L., Leha, J., Trewlynn, W., & Spurway, K. (2021). Social inclusion and exclusion for First Nations LGBTIQ+ people in Australia. Available at
Soldatic, K. (2020). Disability’s circularity: Presence, absence and erasure in australian settler colonial biopolitical population regimes. Available at
Nguyen, X.T. (2015). The Journey to Inclusion. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. 听
Non Peer-Reviewed Articles
Against accessibility? It’s time to decolonise ableism. (2021, April 21). Retrieved August 26, 2021, from
Edited Books
Addlakha, R. (Ed.). (2013). Disability Studies in India: Global Discourses, Local Realities (1st ed.). Routledge India. Available at
Grech, S., & Soldatic, K. (Eds.). (2016). Disability in the global South: The critical handbook. Cham: Springer.
Grech, S., & Soldatic, K. (Eds.). (2015). Disability and colonialism:(dis) encounters and anxious intersectionalities. London and New York: Routledge.
Soldatic, K., & Samararatne, D. (2020). Women with disabilities as agents of peace, change and rights: Experiences from Sri Lanka. Available at
Book Chapters
Cutajar, J., & Adjoe, C. (2016). Whose knowledge, whose voice? power, agency and resistance in disability studies for the global south. In S. Grech & K. Soldatic (Eds.), Disability in the global south: the critical handbook (pp. 503-516). U.S: Springer.
Goodley, D., & Swartz, L. (2016). The Place of Disability. In S. Grech & K. Soldatic (Eds.), Disability in the global South (pp. 69-83). Switzerland Springer
Lafuente, E. M., & Sherry, M. (2021). Disability in Bolivia: A Feminist Global South Perspective. In C. Figueroa & D. I. Hern谩ndez-Saca (Eds.), Disability in the Americas: The Intersections of Education, Power, and Identity (pp. 135-166). Switzerland: Palgravemacmillan
Videos
Anti-Colonial Disability Arts and Activism
鈥淨wo-Li Driskill in conversation on Poetry, Queerness, and Indigenous sovereignties. Both Indigenous and Disability Justice movements are calling for a radical refiguring of power and our relationships with each other on Indigenous land, but too often discussions of disability justice and Indigenous anti-colonial and decolonial resistance are spoken of as separate movements. This talk will weave between performance, poetry, and scholarship to call on decolonial and disability movements to imagine and center an anti-colonial disability justice model into our work as artists and activists.鈥
Bolivia鈥檚 caravan of courage leaves a bittersweet legacy for disabled protesters
鈥淲hen disabled protesters traversed the Andes to lobby for improved benefits, they were met with a police blockade. The Fight, a Guardian documentary, chronicles a battle that led to brutal violence but also sowed the seeds of change.鈥
Disability Activists in action
Here I Am: Turkson, from Zimbabwe, talks about being a disability and AIDS activist
Studio for Sustainability and Social Action: Kevin Quiles Bonilla Interview
Transforming Disability Knowledge, Research, and Activism (TDKRA). (2019). Our Journey. Available at
Working with girls and women with disabilities in the Global South: Some epistemological and methodological reflections: Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen (2022) – organized by the Vietnamese Humanities and Social Sciences Association (VHSSA)
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Podcasts
Disability Saves the World with Dr. Fady Shanouda: Interview with Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen
Shanouda, F. (Host). (2021, September 20). Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen (No. 18) [Audio podcast episode]. In Disability Saves the World with Dr. Fady Shanouda.