Intersectional Colonialities

Robel Afeworki Abay is a sociologist and a guest professor of participatory approaches in social and health sciences at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin.Karen Soldatić is a Canadian excellence research chair, Health Equity and Community Wellbeing, Toronto Metropolitan University and Whitlam Fellow at Western Sydney University.

• 0.The relevance of analysing embodied violence and practices of resistance, contestation, and mobilisation at the axis of disability, race, indigeneity, class, and gender. 1.Decolonising disability studies: Conceptualising disability justice from an African community ideal. 2.Racialized and Gendered Ableism: The Epistemic Erasure and Epistemic Labour of Disability in Transnational Contexts. 3.Trans-Latinidades, disability and decoloniality: Diasporic and Global South LatDisCrit lessons from Central America. 4.Degeneracy & Replacement: Reproducing white settler anxieties in the 21st century. 5.Disabled Romani people in Germany: Learning from the notion of indigeneity in disability studies outside of Settler-Colonial states. 6.Africa and the epistemic normativity of disability. 7.Impossible working lives and disabled bodies during racialised capitalism: Perspectives from Germany and the UK. 8.Stigma as a structure of disablement: Towards collective postcolonial justice. 9.Coloniality, disability, and the family in Kurdistan-Iraq. 10.Raising children with autism in a patriarchal society of a new liberal state: Experiences of mothers of autistic children in Bangladesh. 11.Disability discourse and Muslim student organisations in Malang, Indonesia. 12.Migration studies and disability studies: Colonial engagements past, present and future. 13.Colonial and ableist constructions of ‘vulnerability’ shaping the lives of disabled asylum seekers and refugees in the UK and Germany. 14.Towards a decolonial approach to disability as knowledge and praxis: Unsettling the ‘colonial’ and re-imagining research as spaces of struggles. 15.Reflecting on the How Questions: Using intersectional methods for policy changes. 16.Cultural humility in participatory research: Debunking the myth of ‘hard-to-reach’ groups.