What are the parameters of doing disability studies from a global south perspective?

Mmm. Okay this is a hard one! The question appears to be easy. So I'll have a go and no doubt will continue a blog around the topic in response to YOUR comments. We could ask whether there is such a differentiation - global south - given that much of our knowledge based comes from the First nations (the global north). Yet I don't think some of us uncritically transpose this knowledge to home turf and practices. There is adaptation ... an intermingling with local conditions and nuances, e.g. how the politics and race and diversity operate at the local level. To be honest I think also the climate of intellectual and research development has more space to flow - away from some of the pressures inherent to intellectual communities where there is a critical mass. [translate: the field is not as incestious or cliquey, or dogmatic]. Of course we have our own divisions in Oz and no doubt the same is in NZ ... but there are less of us .. and there is a distance to do our own thing!  My own background brings in issues around empire and postcolonial realities as well. I'll stop here for the moment and work on this some more later.