In the 1970s, disabled people and other marginalised social groups battled an exclusionary Global North university. Disability Studies emerged from those struggles as epistemologies shaped around a Westernised understanding of disability and inequalities, based on dialectic visions of progress and subjective liberation. Today, the advance of neoliberalism in universities, and its connection with colonial legacies, are embedded in different historical contingencies, and disabled students face new forms of discrimination. By merging analytical approaches from post-structural Critical Disability Studies and Epistemologies of the South, this article draws upon interviews with disabled students conducted in an Italian university to explore how neoliberal and capitalistic practices exclude certain knowledges and modalities of being university students. Through disabled students’ experiences, the article advances epistemologies that encompass processes of decolonisation and de-ableism of the university and argues for the Global North university to be an institution that can democratically reconcile polyhedral subjective possibilities of being.

在 1970 年代，残疾人和其他边缘化社会群体与排他性的 Global North 大学作斗争。残疾研究从这些斗争中产生，因为认识论围绕着对残疾和不平等的西化理解形成，基于进步和主观解放的辩证愿景。今天，新自由主义在大学中的发展及其与殖民遗产的联系，嵌入在不同的历史偶然中，残疾学生面临新的歧视形式。通过融合后结构严重残疾研究和南方认识论的分析方法，本文利用对意大利大学残疾学生的采访，探讨新自由主义和资本主义实践如何排除大学生的某些知识和方式。