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Goodley draws on decades of research to argue that disability has much to offer when we contemplate what it means to be human in the 21st Century. He addresses questions such as 'who's allowed to be human?'; 'are human beings dependent?'; and 'what does it mean to be human in the digital age?'

This study draws on sociology, psychology, education, and policy and cultural studies to make the case for a novel and distinct intellectual and political project--dis/ability studies--to encourage the rethinking of the phenomena of ability and disability as a response to the global politics of neoliberal capitalism.

I think when you're doing drama it comes across a lot straighter... People say, 'I'm going to write it down before I go in'. Whether you write it down or not, your mind just goes a total blank... and you are thinking to yourself, 'What was I going to say there?' And when you come out you think, 'Oh dear, I should have said that'. This [drama] is showing more than words could ever show'. (Julie, from the video 'My Review') 1

"This book centres and explores postcolonial theory, which looks at issues of power, economics, politics, religion, and culture and how these elements work in relation to colonial supremacy. It argues that disability is a constitutive material presence in many postcolonial societies and that progressive disability politics arise from postcolonial concerns. By drawing these two subjects together, this handbook challenges oppression, voicelessness, stereotyping, undermining, neo-colonisation, and postcolonisation and bridges binary debate between global North and the global South. The book is divided into 5 sections -Decolonising Disability Studies -Postcolonial Theory, Inclusive Development and Engagements with Disability Studies -Postcolonial Disability Studies, Intersectionalities and Disability Activism -Postcolonial Disability, Childhood and Educational Studies -Postcolonial Discourse, Arts and Literature And comprised of 33 newly written chapters, this book leads with postcolonial perspectives - closely followed by an engagement with critical disability studies - with the explicit aim of foregrounding these contributions; pulling them in from the edges of empirical and theoretical work where they often reside in mainstream academic literature. The book will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies and postcolonial studies as well as those working in sociology, literature and development studies"--

Unpacking postcolonial disability studies / Tsitsi Chataika and Dan Goodley -- The coloniality of disability : analysing intersectional colonialities and subaltern resistance / Robel Afeworki Abay and Karen Soldatic -- A Latin American decolonial thought on disability? : Approaches to a field under construction / Beatriz Revuelta and Raynier Hernández -- Using the perspective of 'peopleship' to conceptualise disability in China / Dong Lin, Fiona Kumari Campbell and Susan Levy -- Decolonising of the global : reflections on constructing local emancipatory projects and influence of western epistemology of disability / Klaudia Muca -- Learning from postcolonial studies, decolonial theory and indigenous studies in disability studies : a scoping review / Yvonne Wechuli and Marianne Hirschberg -- Decolonising disability-inclusive development : the USAID and DFID as case studies / Ana María Sánchez Rodríguez -- Rethinking the smart city as postcolonial technology : the case of the smart nation of Singapore / Kuansong Victor Zhuang and Gerard Goggin -- Africanising neurodiversity : a postcolonial view / Ndakaitei Manase -- 'But I never think of you like that' : an autoethnographic exploration of difference, deviance and defiance as a disabled psychologist / Clare Harvey -- Some faces of power and of those who face with them : thoughts and narratives on the perpetuity of being disabled, enabled and empowered in post/colonial times / Maria Rita Hoffmann and Flamich Maria Magdolna -- 'Who am I to write this?' : an approach to the field of feminist disability studies in Latin America / Constanza López Radrigán and Florencia Herrera -- Changing religio-cultural identities of South Asian disabled youth : accessibility, assimilation and discrimination / Krishan Anil Chadha and Rittika Dasgupta

"This book centres and explores postcolonial theory, which looks at issues of power, economics, politics, religion, and culture and how these elements work in relation to colonial supremacy. It argues that disability is a constitutive material presence in many postcolonial societies and that progressive disability politics arise from postcolonial concerns. By drawing these two subjects together, this handbook challenges oppression, voicelessness, stereotyping, undermining, neo-colonisation, and postcolonisation and bridges binary debate between global North and the global South. The book is divided into 5 sections -Decolonising Disability Studies -Postcolonial Theory, Inclusive Development and Engagements with Disability Studies -Postcolonial Disability Studies, Intersectionalities and Disability Activism -Postcolonial Disability, Childhood and Educational Studies -Postcolonial Discourse, Arts and Literature And comprised of 33 newly written chapters, this book leads with postcolonial perspectives - closely followed by an engagement with critical disability studies - with the explicit aim of foregrounding these contributions; pulling them in from the edges of empirical and theoretical work where they often reside in mainstream academic literature. The book will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies and postcolonial studies as well as those working in sociology, literature and development studies"--

"Leave it to a dog to put the "human" back in "humanities" In September 2020, Rod Michalko wrote to friend and colleague Dan Goodley, congratulating him on the release of his latest book, Disability and Other Human Questions. Joking that his late guide dog, Smokie, had taken offense to the suggestion that disability was purely a human question, Michalko shared a few thoughts on behalf of his dog. When Goodley wrote back—to Smokie—so began an epistolic exchange that would continue for the next seven months. As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world and the realities of lockdown-imposed isolation set in, the Smokie letters provided the friends a space in which to come together in a lively exploration of human-animal relationships and to interrogate disability as disruption, disturbance, and art. Just as he did in life, Smokie guides. In these pages, he offers wisdom about the world, love, friendship, and even The Beatles. His canine observations of human experience provide an avenue into some of the ways blindness might be reconceptualized and "befriended." Uninhibited by the trappings of traditional academic inquiry, Michalko and Goodley are unleashed, free to wander, to wonder, and to provoke within the bonds of trust and respect. Funny and thoughtful, the result is a refreshing exploration and re-evaluation of learned cultural misunderstandings of disability."--

Research on disability in the so-called majority world remains scarce, and that which exists, continues
to be dominated by Western epistemologies and methods, transferred indiscriminately from the
global North to the global South. Unfortunately, the cultural and contextual relevance of these approaches
remain largely unquestioned, a dynamic premised on the assumption that theories and
methods bred in Western spaces are not only superior but applicable to all and sundry. This is what
we term the neocolonisation of research. In order to challenge this, our paper takes up Tuhiwai
Smith's (1999) call for decolonizing research, by exploring the potential for a conceptual framework
blending elements from poststructuralism, post and neo-colonialism, and Hardt and Negri's (2000)
work on Empire to engage more meaningfully with the study of disability across global contexts.