ABSTRACT
237In 2011 Helen Meekosha, a leading Australian scholar, wrote critically about the ongoing dominance of disability representations from the global north. Drawing upon southern theorists, Meekosha aimed to contest the hegemony of northern disability sociopolitical representations and the implicit assumptions suggestive of an apparent global state of disability and what it means to be ‘disabled’. Meekosha argued that the continual northern canon to illuminate structural, institutional, sociocultural and political accounts of southern disabled embodiment was not only an act of misrepresentation, but more significantly symbolised an intellectual crisis within the field itself. The northern canon neither represented southern ways of knowing and/or being, nor illustrated southern disability subjectivities and embodied navigations of global relations of power as played out on the ground.
