Shaun Grech
Biographic Data
| ID | 805134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shaun Grech |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shaun |
| FAMILY NAME | Grech |
| SIGNATURE | GRECH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6419-9827 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
An Introduction to Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction: Intersecting Terrains
Intersecting Disability and Poverty in the Global South: Barriers to the Localization of the UNCRPD
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) remains in place as the major disability rights instrument recognising that all persons with disabilities must enjoy human rights and freedoms as every other person. However, the CRPD does not automatically confer realization of these rights. In practice, its implementation is met by multiple hurdles, most pronounced at the local level in the Global South, where disability and …
Unchaining Disability Law: Global Considerations, Limitations and Possibilities in the Global South and East
Pons, Lord, and Stein's article entitled “Disability, Human Rights Violations, and Crimes Against Humanity,” offers a timely and comprehensive analysis of the necessity to legally frame and approach crimes against persons with disabilities across the globe as crimes against humanity (CAH). National public inquiries examining the systematic violations against persons with disabilities repeatedly demonstrate how, despite efforts to report such hein…
Contar Para Comprender: Cierre De Escuelas Rurales Municipales en Chile Y Sus Implicancias Para Las Comunidades
Frente a los sucesivos cierres de escuelas rurales, se presenta un estudio cuyo objetivo es conocer su real dimensión. Se presenta una caracterización estadística de las escuelas básicas rurales cerradas en Chile entre el 2000 y 2016. Se analizó el número de escuelas rurales en funcionamiento y cerradas a nivel nacional, regional, por dependencia administrativa, Índice de Vulnerabilidad Escolar y matrícula. Los resultados muestran que los cierres…
Disabled Families: The Impacts of Disability and Care on Family Labour and Poverty in Rural Guatemala
An increasing body of literature has started to look at how disability impacts and shifts poverty in the global South in and through a range of areas, including health, education, and livelihoods. However, much of this research is limited to disabled individuals, while qualitative research focusing on and articulating the circumstances, needs and demands of rural families remains scarce, especially research focusing on Latin America. This paper r…
Disability and Colonialism: Encounters and Anxious Intersectionalities
Disability in the Global South: The Critical Handbook
Decolonising Eurocentric disability studies: Why colonialism matters in the disability and global South debate
The words 'colonised' and 'colonising' have recently been adopted in global North fields such as disability studies, highlighting notions of colonised bodies by colonising practices, with the implication that some or other 'decolonisation' is required. But these words remain little more than abstract and dehistoricised metaphors in these Eurocentric academic projects. This paper critically maps out some arguments as to why the colonial encounter …
Disability and Poverty in the Global South: Renegotiating Development in Guatemala
Drawing from long term ethnographic work and practice in Guatemala, this incisive and interdisciplinary text brings in perspectives from critical disability studies, postcolonial theory and critical d
Disability and colonialism: (Dis)encounters and Anxious Intersectionalities
This special issue sets out to position disability within the colonial (the real and imagined), as it explores a range of (often anxious) intersectionalities as disability is theorised, constructed
Justice and equality in education: A capability perspective on disability and special educational needs
Amartya Sen’s (1985, 1999) capability approach has garnered much interest in recent years. Taken up and developed by others, in particular Martha Nussbaum, its adoption has rapidly spread across di
Comment from the Field: Disability and the Majority World: Challenging Dominant Epistemologies
The one-day conference, held on 9 July 2010 at the Gaskell campus at Manchester Metropolitan University, successfully brought together academics, disability activists, researchers, and other stakeholders, to discuss and contribute to the often partial and fragmented debate around disability in the global South. More specifically, it sought to provide an open space for dialogue, and for the articulation and questioning of dominant epistemologies, …
Recolonising debates or perpetuated coloniality? Decentring the spaces of disability, development and community in the global South
The World Health Organisation estimates that around 600 million people or 10% of the world's population is disabled, with more than 80% concentrated in the global South. In spite of this, majority world disability remains stranded on the peripheries of development policy, research and programmes, and virtually excluded from the Western‐centric disability studies. Notwithstanding this disengagement, the views and tenets of the Western disability s…
Poverty and disability
edited by Tanya Barron and Jabulani Manonbe Ncube, London, Leonard Cheshire Disability, 2010, 426 pp., £19.95 (paperback), ISBN 1-90-599048-1 This edited book follows on the heels of its predecesso
Disability, poverty and development: Critical reflections on the majority world debate
Beyond rough estimates, little is known about disability in the majority world and complexities related to context and poverty are too often unacknowledged in the quest to simplify, generalise and export disability discourse, models and strategies. Disability remains peripheral to the larger development agenda and the disability studies debate maintains an almost exclusive focus on western settings, loaded with associated historical, social and c…
Disability, poverty and development: Critical reflections on the majority world debate
Beyond rough estimates, little is known about disability in the majority world and complexities related to context and poverty are too often unacknowledged in the quest to simplify, generalise and export disability discourse, models and strategies. Disability remains peripheral to the larger development agenda and the disability studies debate maintains an almost exclusive focus on western settings, loaded with associated historical, social and c…
Decolonising Eurocentric disability studies: Why colonialism matters in the disability and global South debate
The words 'colonised' and 'colonising' have recently been adopted in global North fields such as disability studies, highlighting notions of colonised bodies by colonising practices, with the implication that some or other 'decolonisation' is required. But these words remain little more than abstract and dehistoricised metaphors in these Eurocentric academic projects. This paper critically maps out some arguments as to why the colonial encounter …
Recolonising debates or perpetuated coloniality? Decentring the spaces of disability, development and community in the global South
The World Health Organisation estimates that around 600 million people or 10% of the world's population is disabled, with more than 80% concentrated in the global South. In spite of this, majority world disability remains stranded on the peripheries of development policy, research and programmes, and virtually excluded from the Western‐centric disability studies. Notwithstanding this disengagement, the views and tenets of the Western disability s…
Disability and colonialism: (Dis)encounters and Anxious Intersectionalities
This special issue sets out to position disability within the colonial (the real and imagined), as it explores a range of (often anxious) intersectionalities as disability is theorised, constructed
Poverty and disability
edited by Tanya Barron and Jabulani Manonbe Ncube, London, Leonard Cheshire Disability, 2010, 426 pp., £19.95 (paperback), ISBN 1-90-599048-1 This edited book follows on the heels of its predecesso
Justice and equality in education: A capability perspective on disability and special educational needs
Amartya Sen’s (1985, 1999) capability approach has garnered much interest in recent years. Taken up and developed by others, in particular Martha Nussbaum, its adoption has rapidly spread across di
Intersecting Disability and Poverty in the Global South: Barriers to the Localization of the UNCRPD
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) remains in place as the major disability rights instrument recognising that all persons with disabilities must enjoy human rights and freedoms as every other person. However, the CRPD does not automatically confer realization of these rights. In practice, its implementation is met by multiple hurdles, most pronounced at the local level in the Global South, where disability and …
Contar Para Comprender: Cierre De Escuelas Rurales Municipales en Chile Y Sus Implicancias Para Las Comunidades
Frente a los sucesivos cierres de escuelas rurales, se presenta un estudio cuyo objetivo es conocer su real dimensión. Se presenta una caracterización estadística de las escuelas básicas rurales cerradas en Chile entre el 2000 y 2016. Se analizó el número de escuelas rurales en funcionamiento y cerradas a nivel nacional, regional, por dependencia administrativa, Índice de Vulnerabilidad Escolar y matrícula. Los resultados muestran que los cierres…
Disabled Families: The Impacts of Disability and Care on Family Labour and Poverty in Rural Guatemala
An increasing body of literature has started to look at how disability impacts and shifts poverty in the global South in and through a range of areas, including health, education, and livelihoods. However, much of this research is limited to disabled individuals, while qualitative research focusing on and articulating the circumstances, needs and demands of rural families remains scarce, especially research focusing on Latin America. This paper r…
Disability, poverty and development: Critical reflections on the majority world debate
Beyond rough estimates, little is known about disability in the majority world and complexities related to context and poverty are too often unacknowledged in the quest to simplify, generalise and export disability discourse, models and strategies. Disability remains peripheral to the larger development agenda and the disability studies debate maintains an almost exclusive focus on western settings, loaded with associated historical, social and c…
Comment from the Field: Disability and the Majority World: Challenging Dominant Epistemologies
The one-day conference, held on 9 July 2010 at the Gaskell campus at Manchester Metropolitan University, successfully brought together academics, disability activists, researchers, and other stakeholders, to discuss and contribute to the often partial and fragmented debate around disability in the global South. More specifically, it sought to provide an open space for dialogue, and for the articulation and questioning of dominant epistemologies, …
Recolonising debates or perpetuated coloniality? Decentring the spaces of disability, development and community in the global South
The World Health Organisation estimates that around 600 million people or 10% of the world's population is disabled, with more than 80% concentrated in the global South. In spite of this, majority world disability remains stranded on the peripheries of development policy, research and programmes, and virtually excluded from the Western‐centric disability studies. Notwithstanding this disengagement, the views and tenets of the Western disability s…
Poverty and disability
edited by Tanya Barron and Jabulani Manonbe Ncube, London, Leonard Cheshire Disability, 2010, 426 pp., £19.95 (paperback), ISBN 1-90-599048-1 This edited book follows on the heels of its predecesso
Justice and equality in education: A capability perspective on disability and special educational needs
Amartya Sen’s (1985, 1999) capability approach has garnered much interest in recent years. Taken up and developed by others, in particular Martha Nussbaum, its adoption has rapidly spread across di
Decolonising Eurocentric disability studies: Why colonialism matters in the disability and global South debate
The words 'colonised' and 'colonising' have recently been adopted in global North fields such as disability studies, highlighting notions of colonised bodies by colonising practices, with the implication that some or other 'decolonisation' is required. But these words remain little more than abstract and dehistoricised metaphors in these Eurocentric academic projects. This paper critically maps out some arguments as to why the colonial encounter …
Disability and Poverty in the Global South: Renegotiating Development in Guatemala
Drawing from long term ethnographic work and practice in Guatemala, this incisive and interdisciplinary text brings in perspectives from critical disability studies, postcolonial theory and critical d
Disability and colonialism: (Dis)encounters and Anxious Intersectionalities
This special issue sets out to position disability within the colonial (the real and imagined), as it explores a range of (often anxious) intersectionalities as disability is theorised, constructed
Disability in the Global South: The Critical Handbook
Disability and Colonialism: Encounters and Anxious Intersectionalities
Disabled Families: The Impacts of Disability and Care on Family Labour and Poverty in Rural Guatemala
An increasing body of literature has started to look at how disability impacts and shifts poverty in the global South in and through a range of areas, including health, education, and livelihoods. However, much of this research is limited to disabled individuals, while qualitative research focusing on and articulating the circumstances, needs and demands of rural families remains scarce, especially research focusing on Latin America. This paper r…
Contar Para Comprender: Cierre De Escuelas Rurales Municipales en Chile Y Sus Implicancias Para Las Comunidades
Frente a los sucesivos cierres de escuelas rurales, se presenta un estudio cuyo objetivo es conocer su real dimensión. Se presenta una caracterización estadística de las escuelas básicas rurales cerradas en Chile entre el 2000 y 2016. Se analizó el número de escuelas rurales en funcionamiento y cerradas a nivel nacional, regional, por dependencia administrativa, Índice de Vulnerabilidad Escolar y matrícula. Los resultados muestran que los cierres…
Unchaining Disability Law: Global Considerations, Limitations and Possibilities in the Global South and East
Pons, Lord, and Stein's article entitled “Disability, Human Rights Violations, and Crimes Against Humanity,” offers a timely and comprehensive analysis of the necessity to legally frame and approach crimes against persons with disabilities across the globe as crimes against humanity (CAH). National public inquiries examining the systematic violations against persons with disabilities repeatedly demonstrate how, despite efforts to report such hein…
Intersecting Disability and Poverty in the Global South: Barriers to the Localization of the UNCRPD
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) remains in place as the major disability rights instrument recognising that all persons with disabilities must enjoy human rights and freedoms as every other person. However, the CRPD does not automatically confer realization of these rights. In practice, its implementation is met by multiple hurdles, most pronounced at the local level in the Global South, where disability and …
An Introduction to Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction: Intersecting Terrains
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Poverty (6 works) · Disability studies (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works)