Key Concerns for Critical Disability Studies

The International Journal of Disability and Social Justice is a timely intervention into the interdisciplinary field Studies. Any new initiative, especially in pre-existing maturing inquiry, should encourage us all to think critically reflexively about key questions issues that we be grappling with today. This paper offers an inevitably partial take on some concerns scholars, activists artists Studies engaging with. Everything do these days takes place shadows cast by global pandemic. While it important acknowledge centrality COVID-19 – threat this poses mind-bodies, politics everyday realities disabled people want foreground preoccupations, ideas debates emerging from within will have resonance beyond We begin offering perspective contemporary nature state Studies; suggesting many are Critical thinkers now. Next, order narrow focus discussion brief paper, choose one emergent popular theoretical orientation posthuman Then, introduce elaborate four broad engage with; desire, alliances, non/humans their implications for conceptualising social justice. Throughout work through power dynamics, accountability requirements generosity engagement provoke.