Editorial Introduction to Volume 2, Issue 2

Abstract

The current issue of JCSCD continues the broad mission to examine disability and languaging under the light of criticality and casts a particular focus on genocide and its implications for disabled people and communication. The seven articles in this volume each address aspects of interconnections between genocide, trauma, human rights, linguistic rights, decolonization, systemic inequities in healthcare and education as they relate to disability and communication. Collectively, the papers in this volume remind us of the need to recognize the interlocking nature of oppression in the pursuit of linguistic justice. In this issue, we also wrestle with the growing erosion of academic freedom and the need to adopt safeguards that shield scholarship from the reach of fear and repression.