About the Journal
Since 2003, RDS has published hundreds of authors from around the world. The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal (RDS) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed, open-access journal providing an international forum for folks with disabilities, academics, professionals, artists and creators from all backgrounds and expertise to express ideas relevant to our understanding of the experience of disability. The journal is published by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Center on Disability Studies.
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Current Issue
Vol. 19 No. 3-4 (2024): Vol. 19 No. 3 & 4: Conversations with Across the Global South; Towards Decolonial Disability Futurities
RDS Special Issue: Conversations with/Across the Global South; Towards Decolonial Disability Futurities (Vol. 19 Nos. 3 & 4 [2024])
New - Welcome Messages by Guest Editors (Issue-in-a-minute)
Xuan Thuy Nguyen Shilpaa Anand Alexis Padilla
Guest Editors: Xuan Thuy Nguyen (Carleton University), Shilpaa Anand (BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus), Alexis Padilla (University of Missouri Saint Louis)
Thinking with Decolonial Disability Studies + Ongoing Global Research
This special double issue offers us new ways to imagine stories of disability and the global South. It invites us to consider how we might rethink and help create more just and inclusive futures that recognize the equal value of global South ways of knowing and anti-ableist practices. Additionally, the issue features other ongoing global research.
Plain language abstracts for all articles are available at: https://rdsjournal.org/index.php/journal/Global-South
Artwork produced by Kiều Thị Phương Anh and Nguyễn Thị Huế within the Engendering Disability-Inclusive Development - Vietnam project. Hanoi, 2023.
From Guest editors: Call for papers: Learning with and from the global South: Emerging insights from decolonial disability work
Published: 2024-08-12
Editorial
Editorial: Special Issue on Global South and Disability
Abstract 424 | WORD Downloads 135 PDF Downloads 246Research Articles and Essays
Beautiful Debilitation: War Injuries as Political Currency in Vietnam and US Relations
Abstract 221 | WORD Downloads 117 PDF Downloads 116Disrupting Fixity: Palestine as Central to Decolonial Disability Justice
Abstract 232 | WORD Downloads 52 PDF Downloads 52Decolonial Disability Futurities From The Global South: Radical Relational Lessons From Glissant
Abstract 232 | WORD Downloads 96 PDF Downloads 110Transnational Global South Informed DisCrit in Teacher Preparation: Boundary-Crossing Between Disability Studies and Communication Sciences
Abstract 195 | WORD Downloads 89 PDF Downloads 101Organizing the Youth Leadership Circle: Lessons Learned across Southern Spaces
Abstract 363 | WORD Downloads 98 PDF Downloads 113Reading Mohini Mohun Majumder’s 'Muk-Shiksha'
Abstract 235 | WORD Downloads 72 PDF Downloads 89Creating Disability as a Category: Perspectives from West Bengal India
Abstract 379 | WORD Downloads 93 PDF Downloads 129Additional Global Research
Inclusive Pedagogy: Rethinking Autistic Students’ Behavior Using Motor Planning and Sensory Regulation
Abstract 230 | WORD Downloads 70 PDF Downloads 123The Right to Love and Be Loved: Sexual Health Education for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Abstract 178 | WORD Downloads 69 PDF Downloads 95In the Forefront: Assessing Public Housing Needs for Persons with Disabilities
Abstract 87 | WORD Downloads 65 PDF Downloads 36Love’s in Sight: Japan’s Graphic Narrative of Blindness
Abstract 211 | WORD Downloads 230 PDF Downloads 88Impairing the Vote: The Effect of State Election Policy on Disabled Voter Turnout
Abstract 122 | WORD Downloads 72 PDF Downloads 104Bridging the Communication Chasm Between Deaf Patients and Masked Medical Professionals
Abstract 133 | WORD Downloads 97 PDF Downloads 59U.S. Postsecondary Students with Disabilities: Where Are They?
Abstract 245 | WORD Downloads 146 PDF Downloads 114Book Review: Authentic Voices in the Discussion of Disability in Kenya: A Review of Disability and Social Justice in Kenya: Scholars, Policymakers, and Activists in Conversation
Abstract 208 | WORD Downloads 84 PDF Downloads 34Notes from the Field
Call for 2025 Pac Rim Presentation Proposals
Abstract 154 | WORD Downloads 83 PDF Downloads 58Dissertation & Abstracts v19i3-4
Abstract 156 | WORD Downloads 87 PDF Downloads 32The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal (RDS) is a peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal that is targeted towards any person interested in disability studies. We have readers and authors from all over the world. We accept submissions in English of a scholarly nature covering a range of disciplines within disability studies as well as creative works expressing ideas in the area of disability. The RDS journal contains the following sections: 1. Research and Essays; 2. Topical Forums; 3. Creative Works; 4. Global Perspective on Disability Studies; 5. Multi-Media Review; 6. Notes from the Field; 7. Dissertation Abstracts. The journal publishes four issues a year.