The Journey to Inclusion
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This book offers insight on the politics of inclusion in Vietnam through a Foucauldian and post-colonial perspective on disability and education. Drawing on a socio-historical analysis of the inclusion of disabled people in Vietnam in the twenty-first century, the book guides readers through a 'history of the present.' By reflecting on the treatment of disabled people in Vietnamese social history, the book argues that this journey to inclusion calls for critical reflections on the challenges and possibilities for policies to transform exclusion for disabled people. The book unveils the problematics of social and educational institutions in governing disability and difference through a critical reflection on discourses and power in the global and local juncture, in relation to its engagement with disability in the global South. The intersection between the global politics of disability rights and development and the local politics of inclusion in Vietnam shapes the cultural politics of education. The ways inclusive education is historically constructed, within this socio-historical condition, reflects the challenges of inclusive thought and action for transforming injustice.
Going beyond 'deconstructive politics,' The Journey to Inclusion argues for a re-positioning of the relationships between the global North and South as an alternative approach to inclusion. It suggests that critical research must construct a politics of engagement with subjugated voices and representations in transnational, national, and local contexts. A reflexive, critical, and inclusive dialogue that engages with Southern knowledge offers a political platform for reframing justice in the twenty-first century.
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Foreword.- Acknowledgements.- The Author's Question: An Embodied Politics of Inclusion.- Opening Thought: Inclusion as Social Inquiry.- The Paradigm Shift of Inclusion in Vietnam: An Historical Encounter.- Disability Studies and the Question of Power.- Back to Fieldwork: Connecting the Global and Local.- The Author's Space: Writing Inclusion.- Disability and Institutional Policy in Vietnam: A History of the Present.- The Tale of S? D?a: The Question of Humanity.- Disability, Education, and Colonialism: A Socio-Historical Analysis.- Disability and Forms of Institutionalization: The Control of 'Social Evils'.- Conclusion.- Policy, Power, and the Paradigm Shift of Inclusion.- The Social Model in the Global Context.- Governmentality: Reflections on the Rationalities of Inclusion.- Disability and Development: A Neocolonial Gaze?.- The "Moral Policy Dilemma": Bio-Citizenship at Place.- Understanding the Politics of Inclusion in Vietnam.- Governmentality and Inclusion.- Conclusion.- Wherefore Inclusion: Inclusivity or Institutional Rationalism?.- The Local Politics of Inclusion: Ethos of Inclusivity or Politics of Governance?.- The Emerging Truth and the Politics of In/Exclusion.- Conclusion.- What Is Participation about? Disability Voice, Silences, or Exclusion?.- Inclusion in Practice: Why Is It Political?.- Disability and Inclusion: How Do Schools Include?.- Citizens Who Were Left Behind.- Disability and Visual Politics: Rethinking the Productions of Disability.- Redefining Disability: Making Sense of the "Dividing Practice".- Transnational Activism.- Conclusion.- Rethinking Inclusion: Situating Ourselves within the Struggles for Change.- Positionality, Power/Knowledge, and the Research Paradigm.- Re-Visioning Inclusion: History Matters!.- Social Change and Inclusion: Critical Encounters.- Final Thoughts: Essay and the Vision of History.- References.- Index.
