- Title
- Differently included: A decolonial perspective on disability and digital media in South Africa
- Creator
- Dalvit, Lorenzo
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/468173
- Identifier
- vital:77026
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-3-030-94121-5
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94122-2_16
- Description
- South Africa is a diverse country with a legacy of inequalities which extend to the digital domain. Alongside race, gender, socio-economic status and others, (dis)ability is an important dimension of inclusion/exclusion. In this chapter, the digital inclusion of people with disabilities in South Africa is explored through a decolonial lens. In particular, the focus is on unmasking digital inclusion as constructive absence, in problematising it as a right and in exploring its liberatory (as opposed to emancipatory) potential. By analysing publicly available online texts, it is argued that digital inclusion should be regarded as a complex and nuanced phenomenon, with the potential to address as well as reproduce inequalities and the marginalisation of (some) people with disabilities.
- Format
- 18 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Palgrave MacMillan
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Dalvit, L., 2022. Differently included: A decolonial perspective on disability and digital media in South Africa. In Vulnerable People and Digital Inclusion: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives (pp. 301-319). Cham: Springer International Publishing
- Rights
- Publisher
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