Globalization and the Changing Face of Inclusive Development

This chapter explores the convergences between critical disability studies and the disciplines of economics, political science, and international development. We look ahead to UN Agenda 2030, theorizing the impact of globalization on disability inclusion and sustainable human development within an emerging new world order. We scrutinize the case of Tonga families with children with cerebral palsy in Zimbabwe, through which their vulnerability and embodied inequalities are shed light on so as to understand global and structural violence. We argue that vulnerability and inequalities are too often taken for granted as an ontological fact. We conclude that the critical disability perspective enables us to radically change our analysis by focusing on the starting point of vulnerability and inequalities.