Recolonising Debates or Perpetuated Coloniality? Decentring the Spaces of Disability, Development and Community in the Global South

Autor/in	Grech, Shaun
Titel	Recolonising Debates or Perpetuated Coloniality? Decentring the Spaces of Disability, Development and Community in the Global South
Quelle	In: International Journal of Inclusive Education, 15 (2011) 1, S.87-100 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1360-3116
Schlagwörter	Disabilities; Inferences; Poverty; Global Approach; Epistemology; Social Capital; Individualism; Intervention; Cultural Influences; Political Attitudes; Economic Development; Debate + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Handicap; Behinderung; Inference; Inferenz; Armut; Globales Denken; Erkenntnistheorie; Sozialkapital; Individualismus; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Debating; Streitgespräch
Abstract	The World Health Organisation estimates that around 600 million people or 10% of the world's population is disabled, with more than 80% concentrated in the global South. In spite of this, majority world disability remains stranded on the peripheries of development policy, research and programmes, and virtually excluded from the Western-centric disability studies. Notwithstanding this disengagement, the views and tenets of the Western disability studies are exported to the majority world backed by a discourse of inferences, generalisations and myths. Critical issues related to society, politics, economics, cultures and the histories of the contexts in which Western concepts and theories are deployed, and the implications for disabled people remain confined to epistemological silence. Communities in the majority world are often bypassed or repositioned to accommodate the neoliberal development project, the history and practices of which remain largely unquestioned. This paper seeks to elucidate and engage with some of these complex issues surrounding disability, development and community in the majority world; critique development, its historical foundations and implications for disabled people; and challenge the exportation of epistemologies and strategies from North to South in an effort to push for a grounded and global disability studies. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10