In response to this, we are actively expanding the Voices from the Field section to take into account innovative methodologies in an effort to renegotiate and push the boundaries of what is considered academic output and how it should be presented. These innovative methods afford disabled people, activists and others, the space and opportunity to set their own agenda and share their knowledge and perspectives in whichever format and language they decide- to speak up as citizens on matters and concerns shaping their immediate world and how they (re)act to these. We are determined to put the methods literally in the hands of global South and other partners, to turn this output into research knowledge and to make it available far and wide, beyond the walls of academia. We are out to make the most of the potential of participatory digital and audio-visual methodologies to produce rich multimodal and narrative data guided by participant interests and priorities. In particular, we are determined to prioritise voices and perspectives from the global South. Importantly, we will do this by inviting and hosting material in accessible, open and far reaching formats in particular audio-visual ones, extending beyond the limitations and boundaries of the written word.Īt DGS, we firmly believe that any journal and academic can and should play an instrumental part in the process of redistribution of opportunities and power for people to assess their own situation and to tell their own story. Through the new Voices from the Field, we are also set on opening up spaces for debates and new incisive material which not only challenges eurocentric knowledge, but which may be used by activists and others to lobby, influence practice and challenge disablism. This sustains our continuing efforts at bringing theory and practice together while contributing new, critical understandings on disability and the global South. We seek to provide a democratic and safe space that prioritises and communicates the voices and concerns of disabled people, disabled people’s organisations (DPOs), practitioners, activists, families and communities in particular those from the global South. The objective of Voices from the Field is to renegotiate, extend and open up the academic space to alternative knowledges, ways of doing research and modes of expression beyond the traditional structures.
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