Disability studies and development geography

Empirical connections, theoretical resonances, and future directions

Bibliographic Data

ID5696751
AuthorsCatherine Jampel (0000-0003-0285-9129, Clark University, corresponding author), Anthony J Bebbington (0000-0003-3342-7898, Clark University)
Year2018
Volume12
Issue12
Publication date2018-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeography Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/gec3.12414
OpenAlexW2900376759
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited79

Scholarship that jointly considers disability and development has advanced over the past decade to include greater attention to the shared histories of colonialism, racism, and the disability category and the relationships among developmental states, ideas about disability, and development projects. A handful of geographers have also directly addressed disability and development or disability in the "developing world" context. This paper reviews current scholarship and highlights three areas where disability studies and development geography share under-explored empirical connections and theoretical resonances: the disability-poverty nexus, interventions in the name of improvement and cure, and mobility and migration. Yet bringing greater attention to disability in development must be done carefully, given the fraught nature of the disability category. As such, this paper also considers how development geographers might contribute to the literature while accounting for the ways in which ideas about what constitutes "disability" and what constitutes "development" emerge through sets of processes and relationships

Disability studies · Economic growth · Economics · Empirical research · Epistemology · Geography · Poverty · Scholarship · Sociology · Disability Rights and Representation · Gender Studies · Migration, Identity, and Health · Parvovirus B19 Infection Studies