Introduction: The relevance of analysing embodied violence and practices of resistance, contestation, and mobilisation at the axis of disability, race, indigeneity, class, and gender

This chapter provides an overview of the central theme of this co-edited volume and a short synopsis of each of the contributing chapters. The opening section explores the growing nuance of global disability scholarship in relation to theories of the colonial and the colonialities of rule and the increased importance of recognising the complexity of disabled identities through the focus on intersectionality under the diversity of colonial contexts. The chapter suggests that engaging with the key conceptual notion coined within the book - Intersectional Colonialities - global disability scholars, activists, and advocates will be able to expand and build new avenues of critical inquiry that are rich in contextual nuance, disabled embodied practices of resistance, and collective practices of experiential mobilisation. The chapter concludes by suggesting that the notion of Intersectional Colonialities offered within this volume invites global disability scholars to first recognise the agential contestations of disabled people and their collective movements for global justice and, second, provide an engaged platform to build greater nuance into theorising disability in all of its relationality and complexity across the continuums and continuities of colonial rule, governance, and practices of governing.