Embodying Disability in the Global South: Exploring Emotional Geographies of Research and of Disabled People’s Lives in Guyana

Although an estimated 80 per cent of the world’s disabled people live in countries of the global South (Grech 2011), most of what we know about impairment and disability is based on experiences of the minority in developed western nations. And despite critiques of this western-centric focus of disability studies emerging in recent years (e.g. Grech 2011; Meekosha 2011; Meekosha and Soldatic 2011; Chouinard 2012, 2014), there remains a pressing …