The International Disability and Social Justice Community

We are a community of researchers and research-users who use research to strengthen social justice for people who experience any form of injustice because of impairment – whether actual or perceived, their own or somebody else’s, current or future. We want to make it easier for researchers and research users to talk to each other and we want to make research more accessible. We are supported by a vibrant range of individual and organisational research users from many different countries. This includes disability activists, disabled people’s organisations, politicians and policy-makers, equality bodies, lawyers and advocates. The Internal Journal of Disability and Social Justice (IJDS) is international and interdisciplinary. All content published in the Journal is Open Access and we will work with our Community to strive for new ways of increasing its accessibility and usefulness to readers in all parts of the world, including those who are disabled and who do not have access to university libraries. This is why we have made the International Journal of Disability and Social Justice open access. We also provide plain English summaries of our research. Disabled people make up roughly a fifth of the world’s population. As people with different forms of ascribed impairment or functional limitation, they continue to experience exclusion and disadvantage in all parts of the world because of ablest attitudes, systems, structures and practices. Read the research published in IJDSJ to find out about these processes of disablement. The Journal always aims to critique, re-imagine and develop new approaches to social justice for disabled people. THE INTERNATIONAL DISABILITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE COMMUNITY AND PLUTO JOURNALS ARE NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANISATIONS. ALL DONATIONS WILL BE USED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AND ITS JOURNAL.