This edited volume highlights the rich and complex educational debates around Critical Disability Studies in Education (DSE), critical mental health, and crip theories. Chapter authors use the term Dis/ability to criticize aspects of education research and international development that do not center the experiences of dis/abled students and people with dis/abilities. Through case studies from around the Americas, chapters highlight how top-down approaches to disabilities further oppress rather than emancipate. The volume prioritizes the spaces of resistance where local initiatives speak back to the demands imposed by an ever-globalizing world shaped by colonialism and imperialism, undergird by intersectional ableism. Voices of disabled students and people with dis/abilities counter-narrate the personal, interpersonal, structural, and political ways in which biomedical and psychological models of disability have impacted their well-being throughout education and society in the Americas. Through a critical sentipensante approach that centers the epistemologies of the south, this volume challenges global mental health and dis/ability hegemony in the Americas.

Centers the voices of a diverse group of Latin American and Caribbean scholars Focuses on a critical analysis of oppression that de-centers Western models of medicalization Takes on a historical and community-based approach to context Focuses on a dialectic of power between individuals and structures

Autorentext

Chantal Figueroa is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Colorado College, USA.

David I. Hernández-Saca is Assistant Professor of Disability Studies in Education at the Department of Special Education at the University of Northern Iowa, USA.

Inhalt

1. Introduction to Dis/ability in the Americas.- 2. A Case Study of Disability Leadership in the Caribbean.- 3. Teaching Toward Decoloniality: A Mental Health Approach for Guatemala.- 4. Biographical-Educational Trajectories and Future Projects of Blind Young People: Contributions to Narrative Analysis from a Critical Perspective.- 5. Affects and Diversity in the Classroom: Everyday Experiences at Santiago de Chile's Schools.- 6. Indigenous Street Children in Ecuador: Contested Narratives of Mental Health and Disability.- 7. Disability in Bolivia: A Feminist Global South Perspective.- 8. Music & Dis/ability: Inclusive Perspectives in the Argentinian Context.- 9. "We Don't Kiss in School": Policing Warmth, Disciplining Physicality, & Examining Consent of Latinx Students in the U.S..- 10. Sophia Cruz's Emotional Construction of Learning Dis/abilities: A Liberation DisCrit Emotion Narrative and Community Psychology Approach.