This kind of journal was long overdue. Thanks to all who initiated this!!!!
On 06/09/2012, Shaun Grech <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> We are very pleased to announce the new international journal: Disability
> and the Global South (DGS)
>
> Disability and the Global South (DGS) is the first peer reviewed journal
> committed to publishing high quality work focused exclusively on all aspects
> of the disability experience in the global South. It provides an
> interdisciplinary platform prioritising material that is critical,
> challenging, and engaging from a range of epistemological perspectives and
> disciplines.
>
> We welcome material from a broad range of areas including disability
> studies, international development, anthropology, postcolonial theory, rural
> development, global health, Latin American Cultural Studies, psychology, and
> feminisms. DGS is not confined in focus to any region, but is particularly
> interested in areas that remain underrepresented, notably Latin America.
>
> The journal encourages contributions from disabled activists and theorists
> from the global South, providing a safe space to critique and challenge the
> Westerncentrism in dominant disciplines and practices, and the imperialism
> in the production of ‘knowledge’ and its dissemination.
>
> DGS welcomes research-based and theoretical contributions in both English
> and Spanish and is open to a wide range of themes including (not
> exclusively):
>
> ** Poverty and disability
> ** War, conflict and displacement
> ** Health and rehabilitation
> ** Livelihoods and education
> ** Cultural constructions of disability
> ** Colonialism
> ** Neoliberal globalisation,international development and contemporary
> Empire
> ** Religion and spirituality
> ** Intersectionalities
> ** Post/neocolonial spaces and identities
> ** The language of rights in practice
> ** Researching disability across cultures, indigenous and decolonizing
> methodologies
>
> For more information: www.dgsjournal.org
> Spanish version: www.dgsjournal.org/espanol
>
> Shaun Grech
> (Journal Editor)
>
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