Intersectional Colonialities: Embodied Colonial Violence and Practices of Resistance at the Axis of Disability, Race, Indigeneity, Class, and Gender

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Contributors
Foreword
	References
Introduction: The relevance of analysing embodied violence and practices of resistance, contestation, and mobilisation at the axis of disability, race, indigeneity, class, and gender
	Introduction
		Bringing intersectionality and coloniality into dialogue
	Book structure
	Concluding remarks
	References
1. Decolonising disability studies: Conceptualising disability justice from an African community ideal
	Introduction
	Decolonising disability studies
	The African relational community ideal
		Obligations in African indigenous thought
		Obligations to people with disabilities
	An obligation-based approach to disability justice
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
2. Racialised and gendered ableism: The epistemic erasure and epistemic labour of disability in transnational contexts
	Introduction
	The politics of invisibility within the coloniality of embodied difference
	Becoming disabled/becoming Black
	Settler colonialism, madness, and reproductive (in)justice
	Reproductive (in)justice, ableism, and the politics of citizenship
	Disability and colonial subjectivities
	Necropolitics: Racialisation without racial terms
	The interplay of racism, sexism, and ableism in the postcolonial moment
	Pathologisation and epistemic erasure at the intersections
	Conclusion: Disability futures and the political economy of care at the intersections of race, gender and disability
	Note
	References
3. Trans-Latinidades, disability and decoloniality: Diasporic and Global South LatDisCrit lessons from Central America
	Introduction
	Understanding LatDisCrit and inter-imperialism as race-based decolonial disability justice modes of counter-narrative theorising
	The counter-narrative power of LatDisCrit in action and Dussel's transmodernities
	LatDisCrit, Trans-Latinidades and Global South decolonialities
	A note on inter-imperialism
	Central American disabled trans-Latinidades: Interrogating the situated emancipation contours of intersectional diasporic decolonialities
	Concluding remarks: Epistemological/axiological notes on the need to bridge Global North and Global South existential matrices of intersectional decoloniality, embodied anti-ableism and anti-racism
	Notes
	References
4. Degeneracy and replacement: Reproducing white settler anxieties in the 21st century
	Introduction
	Methodology
	Eugenics and degeneracy
	White replacement anxieties
	Concluding thoughts
	Note
	References
	Appendix
5. Disabled Romani people in Germany: Learning from the notion of indigeneity in disability studies outside of settler-colonial states
	Introduction
	Historical context: The case of Romani people in Germany
	Disabling anti-Romani racism and marginalisation
	Postcolonial perspectives on anti-Romani racism
	Pluriversality: Beyond Eurocentric knowledge production
	Implications for future research
	Notes
	References
6. Africa and the epistemic normativity of disability
	Introduction
	The African epistemology of disability in the communitarian framework
	The intersectionality of disability in African traditions
	Conclusion: An African humanistic and inclusive approach to disability
	References
7. Impossible working lives and disabled Bodyminds during racialised capitalism: Perspectives from Germany and the United Kingdom
	Introduction
	Rethinking intersectionality in light of decoloniality: Decolonising intersectionality?
		Germany
		United Kingdom
	The Necropolitics of the Anthropocene: Impossible working lives
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
8. Stigma as a structure of disablement: Towards collective postcolonial justice
	Introduction
	Settler colonial context, eugenics, and practices of violence
	Stigma
	Transformative justice and decolonisation
	Conclusion
	References
		Media references for composite story creation
9. Coloniality, disability, and the family in Kurdistan-Iraq
	Introduction
	Historical background
	Methodological approach
		The interviews
		Models from disability studies
	Ableism
	Extended family interdependence
	Identity and community
	Government and charity
	Gendered ableism
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
10. Raising children with autism in a patriarchal society of a new liberal state: Experiences of mothers of autistic children in Bangladesh
	Introduction
	Patriarchy and neoliberalism: An unholy alliance for mothers of autistic children
	Method: Combining qualitative and social media research
	Findings
		Lack of knowledge on autism
		Stress, shame, and guilt of the mothers
		Issues of affordability and access to medical service, therapy, and education
		Lack of social acceptance of children with autism
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
11. Disability discourse and Muslim student organisations in Malang, Indonesia
	Introduction
	Method
	Islam and disability discourse
	Muslim student organisations in Malang
	Disability discourse in National Front of Indonesian Muslim Student (KAMMI)
	Disability discourse in Muhammadiyah Student Association (IMM)
	Disability discourse in Muslim Student Association (HMI)
	Disability discourse in Indonesian Muslim Student Movement (PMII)
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
12. Migration studies and disability studies: Colonial engagements past, present and future
	Introduction
	People on the move: Migration and disability
	Colonial engagements: Disability studies and migration studies perspectives
		Disability studies: Anxious engagements?
	Migration studies and colonialism
	Borders, bordering and citizenship: Disability as bordering category
	The post/colonial subject, intersectionality and decolonisation: Concluding thoughts
	Note
	References
13. Colonial and ableist constructions of 'vulnerability': The impact of restrictive asylum conditions on disabled people in the United Kingdom and Germany
	Introduction
	Comparative perspectives on experiences of disabled people in the asylum system in Germany and the United Kingdom
		Experiences of disabled people in the asylum system in Germany
		Experiences of disabled people in the asylum system in the United Kingdom
	Current initiatives shaping the entitlements of disabled people in the asylum system
		Initiatives in Germany
		Initiatives in the United Kingdom
	Explanatory causes of the hegemonic regressive approach to disability and forced migration
		Intersections of ableism and racism in the postcolonial moment
		The impact of hegemonic framing of vulnerability
	Intersectionality as an explanation of current struggles
	Segregation of refugees from the disabled people's movement
	Conclusion and way forward
	Notes
	References
14. Towards a decolonial approach to disability as knowledge and praxis: Unsettling the 'colonial' and re-imagining research as spaces of struggles
	Introduction
	Fieldnotes in Dong Son - A Luoi
	Theorising decolonial disability knowledge and praxis
		Context
		Disability as social embodiment
		The politics of representations
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	References
15. Reflecting on the how questions: Using intersectional methods for policy changes
	Introduction
	Intersectionality and critical policy analysis
	Using an intersectionality framework for COVID-19 policy research
	Disability and intersectionality
	Data and intersectionality
	Moving to transformative policy change: Concluding discussion
	Notes
	References
16. Cultural humility in participatory research: Debunking the myth of 'hard to reach' groups
	Introduction
	The construction of 'hard to reach' groups as a form of othering
	Participatory research as an alternative methodological approach
	Cultural humility in participatory research
	Methodological and ethical implications
	Conclusion and implications
	References
Index