Introduction : Disability in the Global South

This book has been long in the making. Though the process of drawing in the right authors, working with all the different perspectives and approaches and putting it all together can be taxing, it has nevertheless been a profound and rewarding learning experience for us. We have reflected with each of the authors, discussed potential directions and approaches and often been directly challenged on our thinking. We were strongly convinced of the need for this interdisciplinary volume, and initially we each held strong views on what we were trying to do with the substantive content of each chapter, yet this handbook was shaped by the diverse, committed and critical authors working with us and their reflexive scholarship. We are excited to see this timely, sizeable collection finally published, featuring established and emerging academics and activists from global North and global South working collaboratively from and across a wide range of disciplines, covering a broad range of issues.