Disability and Colonialism: (Dis)encounters and Anxious Intersectionalities
Author:   Karen Soldatic (Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia) ,  Shaun Grech (Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781138645738


Pages:   126
Publication Date:   09 May 2016
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Our Price $305.00 Quantity:  
Add to Cart

Share |

Disability and Colonialism: (Dis)encounters and Anxious Intersectionalities


Add your own review!

Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Karen Soldatic (Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia) ,  Shaun Grech (Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.385kg
ISBN:  

9781138645738


ISBN 10:   1138645737
Pages:   126
Publication Date:   09 May 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Disability and colonialism: (dis)encounters and anxious intersectionalities 1. Decolonising Eurocentric disability studies: why colonialism matters in the disability and global South debate 2. Orientalising deafness: race and disability in imperial Britain 3. ‘Let them be young and stoutly set in limbs’: race, labor, and disability in the British Atlantic World 4. Postcolonial reproductions: disability, indigeneity and the formation of the white masculine settler state of Australia 5. WHO’s MIND, whose future? Mental health projects as colonial logics 6. A Foucauldian journey into the islands of the deaf and blind 7. Ain’t I a woman? Female landmine survivors’ beauty pageants and the ethics of staring

Reviews

Author Information

Karen Soldatic is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow (2016–2019), Institute of Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. This Fellowship, Disability Income Reform and Regional Australia: The Indigenous Experience, draws upon her two previous fellowships: British Academy International Visiting Fellowship (2012) and The Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University (2011–2012) where she remains an Adjunct Fellow.　 Karen's research draws upon almost 20 years of international policy experience, examining the effects of globalisation on disabled people's lives with the neoliberal turn. Shaun Grech is director of The Critical Institute, Malta, visiting fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and editor-in-chief of the international journal, Disability in the Global South (DGS). Shaun is also an activist and practitioner working with disabled people in extreme rural poverty in Latin America.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions
Latest Reading Guide

MRG2025CC

 

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
 Shopping cart
Mailing List

 

Sign up now