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The turn to 'the global' in disability studies has been necessitated by broader developments in social theory, including a thoroughgoing critique of the liberal rights-bearing subject; and sharp internal contradictions within disability movements. This essay raises questions about the ways in which disability subjectivity itself functions ideologically as a cover for other social relations, by functioning as a social-embodied characteristic that provides the self-determining 'I' with self-determination through accessing rights. I propose disablement as a theoretical/methodological tool that exposes da Silva's 'horizon of death' in contemporary disability theory and provides a way out of the collapsing of social relations that occurs in current formulations of disability identity. Further, I argue that the contradiction between disability-as-identity and disablement-that-is-disappeared flows from a fundamental contradiction in Western representations of the human in modernity – between the always/already racially constituted 'transparent I' and the 'affectable other' at the horizon of death; between Man and its human others. In answer to the crisis of disability representation and ethnographic entrapment, I advocate for an engagement with Pan-African, Indigenous, Third-Worldist and postcolonial literary and curatorial strategies as methods for moving past representations of disabled subjectivities and toward contextual social-political narratives.

In this article I will argue that the ideology of white supremacy is currently being reproduced as an ideology of political supremacy. I explore narratives of Obama and my father, and bring a transnational feminist framework to an examination of ontological and cultural ideologies of mixed race identity.

The concept of lifelong learning has become both an ideological distraction that shifts the burden of increasing adaptability to the worker, and a ray of hope for a more democratic and engaged citizenry. The purpose of this paper is to provide a Marxist-feminist analysis of the responses of the field of adult education to the concept of lifelong learning.

Not Born a Refugee Woman is an in-depth inquiry into the identity construction of refugee women. It challenges and rethinks current identity concepts, policies, and practices in the context of a globalizing environment, and in the increasingly racialized post-September 11th context, from the perspective of refugee women. This collection brings together scholar_practitioners from across a wide range of disciplines. The authors emphasize refugee women's agency, resilience, and creativity, in the continuum of domestic, civil, and transnational violence and conflicts, whether in flight or in resettlement, during their uprooted journey and beyond. Through the analysis of local examples and international case studies, the authors critically examine gendered and interrelated factors such as location, humanitarian aid, race, cultural norms, and current psycho-social research that affect the identity and well being of refugee women. This volume is destined to a wide audience of scholars, students, policy makers, advocates, and service providers interested in new developments and critical practices in domains related to gender and forced migrations