Brian Watermeyer & Judith McKenzie 
The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Citizenship in the Global South 

This handbook questions, debates and subverts commonly held assumptions about disability and citizenship in the global postcolonial context. Discourses of citizenship and human rights, so elemental to strategies for addressing disability-based inequality in wealthier nations, have vastly different ramifications in societies of the Global South, where resources for development are limited, democratic processes may be uncertain, and access to education, health, transport and other key services cannot be taken for granted.  In a broad range of areas relevant to disability equity and transformation, an eclectic group of contributors critically consider whether, when and how citizenship may be used as a lever of change in circumstances far removed from UN boardrooms in New York or Geneva. Debate is polyvocal, with voices from the South engaging with those from the North, disabled people with nondisabled, and activists and politicians intersecting with researchers and theoreticians. Along the way, accepted wisdoms on a host of issues in disability and international development are enriched and problematized.  The volume explores what life for disabled people in low and middle income countries tells us about subjects such as identity and intersectionality, labour and the global market, family life and intimate relationships, migration, climate change, access to the digital world, participation in sport and the performing arts, and much else.  

Table of Content

1. Introduction

Brian Watermeyer, Judith Mc Kenzie and Leslie Swartz






PART 1: THEORIZING CITIZENSHIP AND DIVERSITY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH 







2. Surplusisity: Neoliberalism & Disability & Precarity




Karen Soldatic






3. World Building, Citizenship, and Disability: The Strange World of Kazuo Ishiguro’s
Never Let Me Go


Rosemarie Garland-Thomson







4. Unlocking Ability: Democracy and Disabled People’s Campaign for Recognition


Steven Friedman








5. Disability and Citizenship in the Global South in a Post-Truth Era


Leslie Swartz







6. “Can This White Guy Sing the Blues?” Disability, Race and Decolonisation in South African Higher Education


Brian Watermeyer








7. From “No One Left Behind” to Putting the Last First: Centring the Voices of Disabled People in Resilience Work


Tristan Görgens and Gina Ziervogel






PART 2: NETWORKS AND CONTEXTS









8. Sexuality and Citizenship for People With Intellectual Disabilities in Lifelong Family Care: Reflections From a South African Setting


Callista Kahonde & Judith Mc Kenzie




9. In and Out of the Mainstream: Disability, Education and Employment in African Contexts


Anna Horton & Tom Shakespeare






10. Access to Education for Children With Severe to Profound Intellectual Disability in South Africa: The Potential and Limits of Social Action


Tessa Wood, Fatima Essop, Brian Watermeyer & Judith Mc Kenzie






11. Engaging Disability and Religion in the Global South


L. Juliana Claassens, Sa’diyya Shaikh, & Leslie Swartz






PART 3: AN INCLUSIVE SOCIETY








12. Digital Citizenship in the Global South: “Cool Stuff for Other People”?
Brian Watermeyer and Gerard Goggin






13. Challenges in Achieving Universal Access to Transport Services in South African Cities


Roger Behrens and Tristan Görgens






14. Paralympic Sport and Social Justice: Toward a Happy Marriage or Difficult Separation?


P. David Howe






15. Towards a Dis Human Civil Society


Dan Goodley, Rebecca Lawthom, Kirsty Liddiard and Katherine Runswick-Cole






16. Disability, Theatre and Postcoloniality: Reflections on the Politics of Performance 


Xanthe Hunt, Brian Watermeyer & Marlene Le Roux






17. Working Together: Making Inclusive Development a Reality


Theresa Lorenzo and Peter Coleridge







PART 4: MARGINALIZED CITIZENSHIP AND ECOLOGIES OF EXCLUSION







18. Bodies (Im)politic: The Experiences of Sexuality of Disabled Women in Zimbabwe


Christine Peta & Judith Mc Kenzie






19. The Politics of Person-Making: Ethics of Care, Intellectual Impairment Citizenship, and a Reclaiming of Knowledge


Charlotte Capri






20. Citizenship and Participation of People With Disabilities in Brazil: Labour and Social Welfare
Augusto Galery, Natália Alves, Ana Grein & Brian Watermeyer






21. Embedding Rights Into Practice: Challenges in Psycho-Legal Assessments of Complainants With Intellectual Disability in Cases of Sexual Abuse in South Africa


Beverley Dickman






22. Citizenship and People With Intellectual Disabilities: An International Imperative?


Roy Mc Conkey






23. Disabled People, Hate Crime and Citizenship


Alan Roulstone






24. Disability, Migration and Family Support: The Case of Zimbabwean Asylum Seekers in South Africa


Willson Tarasurira and Judith Mc Kenzie

About the author

Brian Watermeyer is Senior Research Officer in the Division of Disability Studies, Department of Health and Rehabilitation sciences, at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. 





Judith Mc Kenzie is Associate Professor in the Division of Disability Studies, Department of Health and Rehabilitation sciences, at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.   





Leslie Swartz is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.