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3 - An African Feminist Decolonial Disability Studies

  • Kharnita Mohamed
    Kharnita Mohamed School of African & Gender Studies, Anthropology & Linguistics University of Cape Town South Africa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9024-9496 (unauthenticated)
    My primary research interests lie in the mediation of subject formation in social life as well as in theory. I have cultivated an interdisciplinary perspective which crosses the disciplines of anthropology, philosophy, sociology and psychology. My research foci, broadly, lies...
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  • Kharnita Mohamed, School of African & Gender Studies, Anthropology & Linguistics University of Cape Town South Africa

    My primary research interests lie in the mediation of subject formation in social life as well as in theory. I have cultivated an interdisciplinary perspective which crosses the disciplines of anthropology, philosophy, sociology and psychology. My research foci, broadly, lies in embodiment: its experience, discursive formation, institutional mediations and theoretical configurations. More specifically, I am interested in the production of knowledge, gender, race, disability, citizenship and visual culture.

    For my PhD research, I am exploring disability from a decolonial feminist perspective.

    Called to Song, my debut novel, was published in 2018.

References

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  2. Goodley, D., 2011, Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC: Sage.
  3. Grech, S., 2015, ‘Decolonising Euro- centric disability studies: why colonialism matters in the disability and global South debate’, Social Identities 21(1): 6–21.
  4. Jaffee,L.J.,2016,‘Disruptingglobaldisabi- lity frameworks: settler- colonialism and the geopolitics of disability in Palestine/Israel’, Disability & Society 31(1): 116–30.
  5. Meekosha,H.,2011,‘Decolonisingdisabi- lity: thinking and acting globally’, Disability and Society 26(6): 667–82.
  6. Mignolo, W. D., 2009, ‘Epistemic disobe- dience, independent thought and de- colonial freedom’, Theory, Culture & Society 26(7–8): 1–23.
  7. Reynolds-White, S. and Ingstad, B., 1995, ‘Disability and culture: an overview’, in B. Ingstad and S. Reynolds-White, eds, Disability and Culture, Los Angeles and London: University of California World Health Organisation, 2011, World Report on Disability, Geneva: World Health Organisation.

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