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Special Theme Issue

With seven articles, this special Theme Issue invites our readers to conversations with our writers from the Global South about knowledge of disability from the decolonial perspectives. The Theme Issue is a collective effort in the context of the ongoing global issues of colonization, coloniality, and violence. Our initiative aims to bring about the possibility of disrupting the traditional power relations in knowledge production, which is based on the assumption of the privileged Global North theorization while marginalizing the voices from the Global South. While seeking the possibilities for decolonial disabilities studies, our works also acknowledge the tensions associated with knowledge transformation.

This research is led by Associate Professor Xuan Thuy Nguyen from the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies.

For more information visit the Decolonial Disability Studies Collective website and the Transforming Disability Knowledge, Research, and Activism website.