Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities
eBook - ePub

Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities

Toward an Eco-Crip Theory

  1. 648 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities

Toward an Eco-Crip Theory

About this book

Although scholars in the environmental humanities have been exploring the dichotomy between "wild" and "built" environmentsfor several years, few have focused on the field of disability studies, a discipline that enliststhe contingency between environments and bodies as a foundation of its scholarship. On the other hand, scholars in disability studieshave demonstrated the ways in which the built environment privileges some bodies and minds over others, yet theyhave rarelyexaminedthe ways in which toxic environments engenderchronic illness and disability or how environmental illnesses disrupt dominant paradigms for scrutinizing "disability." Designed as a reader for undergraduate and graduate courses, Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities employs interdisciplinary perspectives to examine such issues as slow violence, imperialism, race, toxicity, eco-sickness, the body in environmental justice, ableism, and other topics. With a historical scope spanning the seventeenth century to the present, this collection not only presents the foundational documents informing this intersection of fields but also showcases the most current work, making it an indispensable reference.

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Yes, you can access Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities by Sarah Jaquette Ray,Jay Sibara in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Disabilities in Sociology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Foreword
  7. Introduction
  8. Part 1. Foundations
  9. 1. Risking Bodies in the Wild
  10. 2. Bringing Together Feminist Disability Studies and Environmental Justice
  11. 3. Lead’s Racial Matters
  12. 4. Defining Eco-ability
  13. 5. The Ecosomatic Paradigm in Literature
  14. 6. Bodies of Nature
  15. 7. Notes on Natural Worlds, Disabled Bodies, and a Politics of Cure
  16. Part 2. New Essays
  17. Section 1: Corporeal Legacies of U.S. Nation-Building
  18. 8. Blind Indians
  19. 9. Prosthetic Ecologies
  20. 10. Reification, Biomedicine, and Bombs
  21. 11. War Contaminants and Environmental Justice
  22. Section 2: (Re)Producing Toxicity
  23. 12. Toxic Pregnancies
  24. 13. “That Night”
  25. Section 3: Food Justice
  26. 14. Disabling Justice?
  27. 15. Cripping Sustainability, Realizing Food Justice
  28. Section 4: Curing Crips?
  29. 16. The Invalid Sea
  30. 17. La Tierra Pica/The Soil Bites
  31. 18. Cripping East Los Angeles
  32. 19. Neurological Diversity and Environmental (In)Justice
  33. Section 5: Interspecies and Interage Identifications
  34. 20. Precarity and Cross-Species Identification
  35. 21. Autism and Environmental Identity
  36. 22. Moving Together Side by Side
  37. Source Acknowledgments
  38. Contributors
  39. Index
  40. About Sarah Jaquette Ray
  41. About Jay Sibara
  42. About Stacy Alaimo