Spivak and Rethinking the Agency of Disabled Children

Disability as a marginalised subject position is not conspicuous in Postcolonial Studies, although it does constitute material presence and lived experience the Global South. Studies North often downplays social inequality diversity that direct result of inequalities perpetuated by centuries colonialism. This problematic for indigenous populations are disabled, their ‘agency’ left out both postcolonial disability narrative. article examines subaltern exists within subalternity, through works Professor Gayatri C. Spivak, further aims to examine whether space occupied characteristically similar disenfranchised group disabled people. Spivak’s method affirmative sabotage deconstruction studies will be used rethink children conclude impairment similarly ‘disabling’, treaties such UN Convention on Rights Child cannot actually speak.