The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Disability Studies (Routledge International Handbooks)

By: Tsitsi Chataika and Dan Goodley

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Synopsis: This book centres and explores postcolonial theory, which looks at issues of power, economics, politics, religion and culture and how these elements work in relation to colonial supremacy. It argues that disability is a constitutive material presence in many postcolonial societies and that progressive disability politics arise from postcolonial concerns. By drawing these two subjects together, this handbook challenges oppression, voicelessness, stereotyping, undermining, neo-colonisation and postcolonisation and bridges binary debate between global North and the global South.The book is divided into eight sectionsi Setting the Sceneii Decolonising Disability Studiesiii Postcolonial Theory, Inclusive Developmentiv Postcolonial Disability Studies and Disability Activismv Postcolonial Disability and Childhood Studiesvi Postcolonial Disability Studies and Educationvii Postcolonial Disability Studies, Gender, Race and Religionviii ConclusionAnd comprised of 27 newly written chapters, this book leads with postcolonial perspectives – closely followed by an engagement with critical disability studies – with the explicit aim of foregrounding these contributions; pulling them in from the edges of empirical and theoretical work where they often reside in mainstream academic literature.The book will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies and postcolonial studies as well as those working in sociology, literature and development studies.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781003854715
Related ISBNs:: 9781003854685, 9781003310709, 9781032316499
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 03/29/24
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Tsitsi Chataika and Dan Goodley
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Disability-Related, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Tsitsi Chataika
Edited by:: Dan Goodley