The PSA Newsletter #34, “Disability Studies in the Postcolonial/Decolonial World”, invites
reflections on the notion of disability from a postcolonial/decolonial perspective. As always,
we hope to foster informed, wide-ranging, and respectful debates on the topic on focus, and
more in general in the field of postcolonial studies, by sharing original contributions, book
reviews, and conference reports by colleagues from across the world.
The newsletter features three original contributions: Darren Paltrowitz discusses how the
emergence of disabled villains and morally complex characters in contemporary global media
raises important questions for decolonial disability scholarship. Abigal Muchecheti explores
the interplay between disability and colonial legacies by proposing silence as a form of
resistance against extractive practices of knowledge production. Ayush Gowala foregrounds
how disability in the Global South is deeply interconnected with forms of “slow violence”,
positioning the disabled child’s body as evidence of the postcolonial nation-state’s ongoing
structural failures.
Next, readers can find Sally M. Kessler’s book review of Quiet methodologies: Humility in
the Humanities by Suzanne Bost (2025), which is followed by a conference report on the
AISCLI Seminar “African Cosmologies Across the Atlantic: Literary, Linguistic, Artistic
and Cultural Representations” by Alessandra Di Pietro, Aminat Emma Badmus and
Lisbety Mirabal Díaz.
The final section of the newsletter includes information about the call for the next issue and
useful contacts.
Happy reading!
Francesca and Jennifer
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