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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.
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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 289 | WORD Downloads 81 PDF Downloads 205Research Articles and Essays
Beautiful Debilitation: War Injuries as Political Currency in Vietnam and US Relations
Abstract 134 | WORD Downloads 63 PDF Downloads 82Disrupting Fixity: Palestine as Central to Decolonial Disability Justice
Abstract 158 | WORD Downloads 10 PDF Downloads 21Decolonial Disability Futurities From The Global South: Radical Relational Lessons From Glissant
Abstract 142 | WORD Downloads 48 PDF Downloads 87Transnational Global South Informed DisCrit in Teacher Preparation: Boundary-Crossing Between Disability Studies and Communication Sciences
Abstract 138 | WORD Downloads 41 PDF Downloads 83Organizing the Youth Leadership Circle: Lessons Learned across Southern Spaces
Abstract 255 | WORD Downloads 49 PDF Downloads 85Reading Mohini Mohun Majumder’s 'Muk-Shiksha'
Abstract 179 | WORD Downloads 42 PDF Downloads 75Creating Disability as a Category: Perspectives from West Bengal India
Abstract 245 | WORD Downloads 49 PDF Downloads 93Additional Global Research
Inclusive Pedagogy: Rethinking Autistic Students’ Behavior Using Motor Planning and Sensory Regulation
Abstract 154 | WORD Downloads 35 PDF Downloads 75The Right to Love and Be Loved: Sexual Health Education for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Abstract 91 | WORD Downloads 35 PDF Downloads 65In the Forefront: Assessing Public Housing Needs for Persons with Disabilities
Abstract 54 | WORD Downloads 32 PDF Downloads 24Love’s in Sight: Japan’s Graphic Narrative of Blindness
Abstract 154 | WORD Downloads 187 PDF Downloads 62Impairing the Vote: The Effect of State Election Policy on Disabled Voter Turnout
Abstract 64 | WORD Downloads 37 PDF Downloads 79Bridging the Communication Chasm Between Deaf Patients and Masked Medical Professionals
Abstract 91 | WORD Downloads 50 PDF Downloads 34U.S. Postsecondary Students with Disabilities: Where Are They?
Abstract 172 | WORD Downloads 90 PDF Downloads 101Book 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 135 | WORD Downloads 45 PDF Downloads 30Notes from the Field
Call for 2025 Pac Rim Presentation Proposals
Abstract 105 | WORD Downloads 46 PDF Downloads 47Dissertation & Abstracts v19i3-4
Abstract 98 | WORD Downloads 46 PDF Downloads 23The Review of Disability Studies (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.