Foreword.- Acknowledgements.- The Author's
Question: An Embodied Politics of Inclusion.- Opening Thought: Inclusion as
Social Inquiry.- The Paradigm Shift of Inclusion in Vietnam: An Historical
Encounter.- Disability Studies and the Question of Power.- Back to Fieldwork:
Connecting the Global and Local.- The Author's Space: Writing Inclusion.- Disability
and Institutional Policy in Vietnam: A History of the Present.- The Tale of S¿
D¿a: The Question of Humanity.- Disability, Education, and Colonialism: A
Socio-Historical Analysis.- Disability and Forms of Institutionalization: The
Control of 'Social Evils'.- Conclusion.- Policy, Power, and the Paradigm Shift
of Inclusion.- The Social Model in the Global Context.- Governmentality: Reflections
on the Rationalities of Inclusion.- Disability and Development: A Neocolonial
Gaze?.- The "Moral Policy Dilemma": Bio-Citizenship at Place.- Understanding
the Politics of Inclusion in Vietnam.- Governmentality and Inclusion.- Conclusion.-
Wherefore Inclusion: Inclusivity or Institutional Rationalism?.- The Local
Politics of Inclusion: Ethos of Inclusivity or Politics of Governance?.- The
Emerging Truth and the Politics of In/Exclusion.- Conclusion.- What Is
Participation about? Disability Voice, Silences, or Exclusion?.- Inclusion in
Practice: Why Is It Political?.- Disability and Inclusion: How Do Schools
Include?.- Citizens Who Were Left Behind.- Disability and Visual Politics:
Rethinking the Productions of Disability.- Redefining Disability: Making Sense
of the "Dividing Practice".- Transnational Activism.- Conclusion.- Rethinking
Inclusion: Situating Ourselves within the Struggles for Change.- Positionality,
Power/Knowledge, and the Research Paradigm.- Re-Visioning Inclusion: History
Matters!.- Social Change and Inclusion: Critical Encounters.- Final Thoughts:
Essay and the Vision of History.- References.- Index.

This book offers insight on the politics of
inclusion in Vietnam through a Foucauldian and post-colonial perspective on
disability and education. Drawing on a socio-historical analysis of the
inclusion of disabled people in Vietnam in the twenty-first century, the book
guides readers through a 'history of the present.' By reflecting on the
treatment of disabled people in Vietnamese social history, the book argues that
this journey to inclusion calls for critical reflections on the challenges and
possibilities for policies to transform exclusion for disabled people. The book
unveils the problematics of social and educational institutions in governing
disability and difference through a critical reflection on discourses and power
in the global and local juncture, in relation to its engagement with disability
in the global South. The intersection between the global politics of disability
rights and development and the local politics of inclusion in Vietnam shapes
the cultural politics of education. The ways inclusive education is
historically constructed, within this socio-historical condition, reflects the
challenges of inclusive thought and action for transforming injustice.

Going beyond 'deconstructive politics,' The
Journey to Inclusion argues for a re-positioning of the relationships between
the global North and South as an alternative approach to inclusion. It suggests
that critical research must construct a politics of engagement with subjugated
voices and representations in transnational, national, and local contexts. A
reflexive, critical, and inclusive dialogue that engages with Southern
knowledge offers a political platform for reframing justice in the twenty-first
century.