Unsettling research versus activism: how might critical disability studies disrupt traditional research boundaries?

Engaging girls with disabilities through cellphilming: Reflections on participatory visual research as a means of countering violence in the Global South

“…In other instances, we found that ethnic minority girls faced higher level of discrimination than the majority group (Nguyen et al, 2019). In public schools in the rural area of A Luoi, ethnic minority girls reported being despised, looked down upon, and teased by Kinh (the majority) students.…”

“…4. For other decolonizing and participatory approaches used in TDKRA, see Nguyen (2019Nguyen ( , 2020; Stienstra and Nguyen (2020); and Nguyen et al (2019).…”

“…Drawing on our earlier work on girls with disabilities in the global South (Nguyen, 2016(Nguyen, , 2019Nguyen and Mitchell, 2014;Nguyen et al, 2019), we use an intersectional perspective which is defined as "an analytic lens [that] highlights the multiple nature of individual identities and how varying combinations of class, gender, race, sexuality, and citizenship categories differentially position each individual" (Collins and Bilge, 2016: 8). It is imperative for understanding the multiple forms of violence experienced by girls with disabilities in the global South and for analyzing the various strategies girls use to resist the forms of oppression shaping their lives.…”

Empowerment through Participation in Vietnam:

“…This approach enabled them to reimagine their social positionings by envisioning and re-envisioning accessible spaces where they belong or want to belong. (Nguyen, Stienstra, Gonick, Do, Huynh, 2019). Therefore, Community Asset Mapping helped the girls and women with disabilities identify their participation in each place, to assess their engagement within their community in a more exact and comprehensive way (see Image 7).…”

“…Nonetheless, this approach does not attend to the intersection between disability and gender in human rights provisions (MRGD, 2016, p.11). Moreover, Stienstra and Nguyen (2019) argue that deliberative democracy, as theorized and practiced in the global [?] North, has limited capacity to explain the engagement of disabled girls and women in Vietnam.…”