Xuan Thuy Nguyen
Principal Investigator
| Degrees: | M.Ed (McGill), PhD (McGill) |
| Email: | xuanthuy.nguyen@carleton.ca |
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Dr. Xuan Thuy Nguyen’s research examines the ways girls and women with disabilities in the global South participate in research to claim their rights. This project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) [2016-20], aims to challenge gaps of knowledge on girls with disabilities within existing research on disability studies, inclusive education, human rights, and girlhood studies by connecting knowledge, research, and activism for their inclusion.聽This聽project聽provides opportunities for graduate students, academics, and activists in Canada to engage in transnational work for social justice with disabled girls and women in the global South. This research builds on her聽work on inclusion in the context of disability rights.
Her new book, The听闯ourney to Inclusion, published by Sense Publishers, critically engages with the politics of inclusion and exclusion through the emergence of disability rights, development, and inclusive education discourses at the global, national, and local levels. Focusing on the context of Vietnam, the book offers critical insight into contemporary debates on inclusion for people with disabilities in the face of neo-liberal, neo-imperialist, and neo-colonial ideologies. It challenges academics and activists to engage more deeply with the meanings and politics of inclusion in the intersection between global and local histories.
Selected Publications
Book
Nguyen X. T. (2015). . Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei, the Netherland: Sense Publishers (published within the Studies in Inclusive Education Series STIE, Volume 29)
Peer-Reviewed Book chapter
Nguyen, X. T. (in press). Unsettling 鈥渋nclusion鈥� in the global South: A post-colonial and intersectional approach to disability, gender, and education. In Schuelk, M. J., C. Johnstone, G. Thomas, & A. Artiles (Eds.). Handbook of inclusion and diversity in education. London: Sage.
Stienstra, D. & Nguyen, X. T. (in press). Opening to the Possible: Girls and Women with Disabilities Engaging in Vietnam. In Wiebe, S. M. & L. Levac (Eds.). Creating spaces for engagement. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Mitchell, C., De Lange, N., & Nguyen, X. T. (2016). The participation of girls with disabilities in Vietnam in a photovoice project. In J. Coffey, S. Budgeon, & H. Cahill (Eds). Learning bodies- the body in youth and childhood studies. Singapore: Springer.
Book catalogue
Nguyen, X. T., Rahim, N., Miron, A., Dang, T. L., Mitchell, C. (2019). (Eds.). Envisioning inclusion: Transforming Disability Knowledge, Research, and Activism. Hanoi: Hong Duc Publishers.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Nguyen, X. T. (in press). Governing difference: Reflecting on the bio-politics of cure. Review of 鈥淐urative violence: Rehabilitating disability, gender, and sexuality in modern Korea.鈥� CRITICISM: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts.
Nguyen, X. T., Stienstra, D., Gonick, M., Do, H., & Huynh, N. (accepted). Disability and Society, Special themed issue on Disability, Activism and the Academy: Time for Renewal?
Nguyen, X. T. (2018). . Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 7(1), 1-25.
Nguyen, X. T. & Johnson, P. (2017). . Third World Thematics, 20(20), 1-15.