Disability studies and the environmental humanities : toward an eco-crip theory / edited and with an introduction by Sarah Jaquette Ray and Jay Sibara ; foreword by Stacy Alaimo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ray, Sarah Jaquette, editor.

Sibara, Jay, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disability studies.

Environmental sciences.

Science and the humanities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (684 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Although scholars in the environmental humanities have been exploring the dichotomy between "wild" and "built" environments for several years, few have focused on the field of disability studies, a discipline that enlists the contingency between environments and bodies as a foundation of its scholarship. On the other hand, scholars in disability studies have demonstrated the ways in which the built environment privileges some bodies and minds over others, yet they have rarely examined the ways in which toxic environments engender chronic illness and disability or how environmental illnesses disrupt dominant paradigms for scrutinizing disability." --amazon.com

Contents:

Part 1. Foundations

Risking Bodies in the Wild : The "Corporeal Unconscious" of American Adventure Culture / Sarah Jaquette Ray

Bringing Together Feminist Disability Studies and Environmental Justice / Valerie Ann Johnson

Lead's Racial Matters / Mel Y. Chen

Defining Eco-ability : Social Justice and the Intersectionality of Disability, Nonhuman Animals, and Ecology / Anthony J. Nocella II

The Ecosomatic Paradigm in Literature : Merging Disability Studies and Ecocriticism / Matthew J. C. Cella

Bodies of Nature : The Environmental Politics of Disability / Alison Kafer

Notes on Natural Worlds, Disabled Bodies, and a Politics of Cure / Eli Clare

Part 2. New Essays

Section 1: Corporeal Legacies of U.S. Nation-Building

Blind Indians : Káteri Tekakwí:tha and Joseph Amos's Visions of Indigenous Resurgence / Siobhan Senier

Prosthetic Ecologies: (Re)Membering Disability and Rehabilitating Laos's "Secret War" / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials

Reification, Biomedicine, and Bombs : Women's Politicization in Vieques's Social Movement / Victor M. Torres-Vélez

War Contaminants and Environmental Justice : The Case of Congenital Heart Defects in Iraq / Julie Sadler

Section 2: (Re)Producing Toxicity

Toxic Pregnancies : Speculative Futures, Disabling Environments, and Neoliberal Biocapital / Kelly Fritsch

"That Night" : Seeing Bhopal through the Lens of Disability and Environmental Justice Studies / Anita Mannur

Section 3. Food Justice

Disabling Justice? The Exclusion of People with Disabilities from the Food Justice Movement / Natasha Simpson

Cripping Sustainability, Realizing Food Justice / Kim Q. Hall

Section 4. Curing Crips? Narratives of Health and Space

The Invalid Sea : Disability Studies and Environmental Justice History / Traci Brynne Voyles

La Tierra Pica/The Soil Bites : Hazardous Environments and the Degeneration of Bracero Health, 1942-1964 / Mary E. Mendoza

Cripping East Los Angeles : Enabling Environmental Justice in Helena María Viramontes's Their Dogs Came with Them / Jina B. Kim

Neurological Diversity and Environmental (In)Justice : The Ecological Other in Popular and Journalist Representations of Autism / Sarah Gibbons

Section 5. Interspecies and Interage Identifications

Precarity and Cross-Species Identification : Autism, the Critique of Normative Cognition, and Nonspeciesism / David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder

Autism and Environmental Identity : Environmental Justice and the Chains of Empathy / Robert Melchior Figueroa

Moving Together Side by Side : Human-Animal Comparisons in Picture Books / Elizabeth A. Wheeler.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 27, 2017).

ISBN:

9781496201690

1496201698

9781496201676

1496201671

OCLC:

983465907