Government policies on disability – and criticism of them – rest in parton an understanding of the circumstances of disabled people informedby cross-sectional survey data, dividing the population into “thedisabled” and “the non-disabled”. While conceptual debates about thenature of...

"The author provides unprecedented critical, interdisciplinary explorations of the complex dynamics and intersectionalities operating between disability and poverty in rural areas, an assumed relationship that is too often misunderstood. Reporting on long term ethnographic work in Guatemala and...