1. Introduction to Dis/ability in the Americas -- 2. A Case Study of Disability Leadership in the Caribbean -- 3. Teaching Toward Decoloniality: A Mental Health Approach for Guatemala -- 4. Biographical-Educational Trajectories and Future Projects of Blind Young People: Contributions to Narrative Analysis from a Critical Perspective -- 5. Affects and Diversity in the Classroom: Everyday Experiences at Santiago de Chile's Schools -- 6. Indigenous Street Children in Ecuador: Contested Narratives of Mental Health and Disability -- 7. Disability in Bolivia: A Feminist Global South Perspective -- 8. Music & Dis/ability: Inclusive Perspectives in the Argentinian Context -- 9. "We Don't Kiss in School": Policing Warmth, Disciplining Physicality, & Examining Consent of Latinx Students in the U.S. -- 10. Sophia Cruz’s Emotional Construction of Learning Dis/abilities: A Liberation DisCrit Emotion Narrative and Community Psychology Approach.

This edited volume highlights the rich and complex educational debates around Critical Disability Studies in Education (DSE), critical mental health, and crip theories. Chapter authors use the term Dis/ability to criticize aspects of education research and international development that do not center the experiences of dis/abled students and people with dis/abilities. Through case studies from around the Americas, chapters highlight how top-down approaches to disabilities further oppress rather than emancipate. The volume prioritizes the spaces of resistance where local initiatives speak back to the demands imposed by an ever-globalizing world shaped by colonialism and imperialism, undergird by intersectional ableism. Voices of disabled students and people with dis/abilities counter-narrate the personal, interpersonal, structural, and political ways in which biomedical and psychological models of disability have impacted their well-being throughout education and society in the Americas. Through a critical sentipensante approach that centers the “epistemologies of the south,” this volume challenges global mental health and dis/ability hegemony in the Americas.