Global Politics of Impairment and Disability

Helen Meekosha is an Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Helen has opened up the field in the gendered relations of disability. Her work has broken new ground in setting disability in a context of neoliberalism and globalization, arguing the case for an examination of global North/ South relations that affect the incidence and production of disability.Karen Soldatic is a Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Karen is an international disability scholar who has extensive experience within the field of international development in conflict zones. Her work brings together this rich field work engagement to theoretically inform conceptual understandings of disability in the Global South.

• 1. Southern Bodies and Disability: re-thinking concepts Raewyn Connell 2. Human Rights and the Global South: the case of disability Helen Meekosha and Karen Soldatic 3. Embodiment and Emotion in Sierra Leone Maria Berghs 4. Fostering Deaf People’s Empowerment: the Cameroonian deaf community and epistemological equity Goedele AM de Clerck 5. Care, Disability and HIV in Africa: diverging or interconnected concepts and practices? Ruth Evans and Agnes Atim 6. Geodisability Knowledge Production and International Norms: a Sri Lankan case study Fiona Kumari Campbell 7. The Lived Experience of Families Living with Spinal Cord Disability in Northeast Thailand Julie A King and Mark J King 8. Disability and Poverty: the need for a more nuanced understanding of implications for development policy and practice Nora Groce, Maria Kett, Raymond Lang and Jean-Francois Trani 9. Including Deaf Children in Primary Schools in Bushenyi, Uganda: a community-based initiative Susie Miles, Lorraine Wapling and Julia Beart 10. Disability and Humanitarianism in Refugee Camps: the case for a travelling supranational disability praxis Mansha Mirza