Disability and Colonialism
The mapping, control and subjugation of the human body and mind were core features of the colonial conquest. This book draws together a rich collection of diverse, yet rigorous, papers that aim to expose the presence and significance of disability within colonialism, and how disability remains present in the establishment, maintenance and continuation of colonial structures of power. Disability as a site of historical analysis has become critically important to understanding colonial relations of power and the ways in which gender and identity are defined through colonial categorisations of the body. Thus, there is a growing prominence of disability within the historical literature. Yet, there are few international anthologies that traverse a critical level of depth on the subject domain. This book fills a critical gap in the historical literature and is likely to become a core reader for post graduate studies within disability studies, postcolonial studies and more broadly across the humanities.
The chapters in this book were originally published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture.
Karen Soldatic is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at the Institute of Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia. Karen has extensive experience within the field of international development in post conflict zones. Her work brings together this rich field work to theoretically inform conceptual understandings of disability. She has been awarded a number of prestigious research fellowships including a British Academy International Visiting Fellowship (2012) and a Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University Early Career Research Fellowship (20112012).
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.
Disability and Colonialism
(Dis)encounters and anxious
intersectionalities
Edited by
Karen Soldatic and Shaun Grech
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Contents
Shaun Grech and Karen Soldatic
Shaun Grech
Esme Cleall
Stefanie Kennedy
Karen Soldatic
Tanya Titchkosky and Katie Aubrecht
Ann Lazarsfeld-Jensen
Rachel A.D. Bloul
The following chapters were originally published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, volume 21, issue 1 (May 2015). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction
Disability and colonialism: (dis)encounters and anxious intersectionalities
Shaun Grech and Karen Soldatic
Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, volume 21, issue 1 (May 2015) pp. 15
Chapter 1
Decolonising Eurocentric disability studies: why colonialism matters in the disability and global South debate
Shaun Grech
Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, volume 21, issue 1 (May 2015) pp. 621
Chapter 2
Orientalising deafness: race and disability in imperial Britain
Esme Cleall
Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, volume 21, issue 1 (May 2015) pp. 2236
Chapter 3
Let them be young and stoutly set in limbs: race, labor, and disability in the British Atlantic World
Stefanie Kennedy
Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, volume 21, issue 1 (May 2015) pp. 3752
Chapter 4
Postcolonial reproductions: disability, indigeneity and the formation of the white masculine settler state of Australia
Karen Soldatic
Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, volume 21, issue 1 (May 2015) pp. 5368
Chapter 5
WHOs MIND, whose future? Mental health projects as colonial logics
Tanya Titchkosky and Katie Aubrecht
Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, volume 21, issue 1 (May 2015) pp. 6984
The following chapter was originally published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, volume 20, issue 23 (March 2014). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for the article, as follows:
Chapter 6
A Foucauldian journey into the islands of the deaf and blind
Ann Lazarsfeld-Jensen
Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, volume. 20, issue 23 (March 2014) pp. 214223
The following chapter was originally published in Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, volume 18, issue 1 (January 2012). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for the article, as follows:
Chapter 7
Aint I a woman? Female landmine survivors beauty pageants and the ethics of staring
Rachel A.D. Bloul
Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, volume 18, issue 1 (January 2012) pp. 318
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Katie Aubrecht, PhD, is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Postdoctoral Fellow, Mount Saint Vincent University, and Research Coordinator at the Nova Scotia Centre on Aging. Katie uses intersectional, postcolonial, and interpretive sociological theories and qualitative research methods to examine the social construction of mental life. Her research and teaching adopts a disability studies perspective, which privileges the lived experience of disability. She has published in
