Indigenous Knowledge and Practices on Disability in Latin America

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XIX, 233 Seiten

2026
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
9783032067203 (ISBN)

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This book presents Indigenous knowledge, cultural practices, and lived experiences of disability among Indigenous peoples in Latin America. It explores worldviews, community life, and struggles for rights and recognition that shape healing, care, and social participation. Comprising twelve chapters written by eighteen authors, it brings together perspectives from history, education, health, territorial economy, communication, and social sciences. Readers will find unique insights into often overlooked topics such as access to land, preservation of Indigenous languages, Indigenous sign languages, genealogies, and community-led disability initiatives. The authors highlight how Indigenous communities create inclusive spaces, resist discrimination, and sustain cultural identity, offering both theoretical reflections and practical approaches.By combining academic research with lived experience, this book is an essential resource for scholars in disability studies, Indigenous rights, anthropology, social policy, and anyone seeking to understand the intersection of culture, disability, and social justice in Latin America.

Michelle Lapierre is Assistant Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of La Frontera, Chile. Her research focuses on critical disability studies, disability in Indigenous people, intercultural health, and disability activism. She is part of the Critical Disability Studies Working Group in the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and the Millennium Nucleus Studies on Disability and Citizenship (DISCA), Chile.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- PART I: THEORETICAL APPROACH.- Chapter 2: Is there such a thing as Indigenous Disability Studies?.- PART II: REFLECTIONS ON DISABILITY AND INDIGENOUS CULTURAL SYSTEMS.- Chapter 3: An anti-ableist rereading of Andean paleopathology.- Chapter 4: Reflections on the relationship between indigenous language and disability in Indigenous peoples.- Chapter 5: Challenges of inclusion for Indigenous people with disabilities in community management and access to land in Mexico.- Chapter 6: Schooling of Indigenous Students with Disabilities in Brazil.- PART III: CASE STUDIES AND LIFE EXPERIENCES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES.- Chapter 7: Reflections on childbirth and disability among the Amazonian Kichwa people of Loreto, Ecuador. The birth of María.- Chapter 8: Mbyá Guaraní Cosmopraxis and the Experience of Disability: Memories of a Spiritual Dialogue in Misiones, Argentina.- Chapter 9: Lawentuchefe, Kimche and Artisans with Disabilities in the Mapuche-Williche Territory.- Chapter 10: Becoming Machi, Becoming disabled: Ontological Tensions in the Machi Calling.- Chapter 11: Community Participation of Indigenous deaf women. Three personal stories.- Chapter 12: Contributions of Latin American indigenous philosophy to disability studies.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.11.2025
Zusatzinfo	XIX, 233 p. 15 illus., 10 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	Aboriginals • Community Feminism • decoloniality • Disability Studies • First Nations • global South • indigenous people • Indigenous philosophies • Public Health • Social Inclusion • Subaltern Studies
ISBN-13	9783032067203 / 9783032067203
Zustand	Neuware