Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities (eBook, PDF)

Toward an Eco-Crip Theory
Redaktion: Ray, Sarah Jaquette; Sibara, Jay

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Produktbeschreibung

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." 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496201690
• Artikelnr.: 55972808

Autorenporträt

Sarah Jaquette Ray is an associate professor of environmental studies and program leader of the Environmental Studies Program at Humboldt State University. She is the author of The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture. Jay Sibara is an assistant professor of English at Colby College and a member of the Access Initiative of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. Stacy Alaimo is a distinguished teaching professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington and the author of Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self and Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times.    

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Stacy Alaimo
Introduction by Sarah Jaquette Ray and Jay Sibara
Part 1. Foundations
1. Risking Bodies in the Wild: The “Corporeal Unconscious” of American
Adventure Culture
Sarah Jaquette Ray
2. Bringing Together Feminist Disability Studies and Environmental Justice
Valerie Ann Johnson
3. Lead’s Racial Matters
Mel Y. Chen
4. Defining Eco-ability: Social Justice and the Intersectionality of
Disability, Nonhuman Animals, and Ecology
Anthony J. Nocella II
5. The Ecosomatic Paradigm in Literature: Merging Disability Studies and
Ecocriticism
Matthew J. C. Cella
6. Bodies of Nature: The Environmental Politics of Disability
Alison Kafer
7. 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
8. Blind Indians: Káteri Tekakwí:tha and Joseph Amos’s Visions of
Indigenous Resurgence    000
Siobhan Senier
9. Prosthetic Ecologies: (Re)Membering Disability and Rehabilitating Laos’s
“Secret War”
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
10. Reification, Biomedicine, and Bombs: Women’s Politicization in
Vieques’s Social Movement
Víctor M. Torres-Vélez
11. War Contaminants and Environmental Justice: The Case of Congenital
Heart Defects in Iraq
Julie Sadler
Section 2: (Re)Producing Toxicity
12. Toxic Pregnancies: Speculative Futures, Disabling Environments, and
Neoliberal Biocapital
Kelly Fritsch
13. “That Night”: Seeing Bhopal through the Lens of Disability and
Environmental Justice Studies
Anita Mannur
Section 3: Food Justice
14. Disabling Justice? The Exclusion of People with Disabilities from the
Food Justice Movement
Natasha Simpson
15. Cripping Sustainability, Realizing Food Justice
Kim Q. Hall
Section 4: Curing Crips? Narratives of Health and Space
16. The Invalid Sea: Disability Studies and Environmental Justice History
Traci Brynne Voyles
17. La Tierra Pica/The Soil Bites: Hazardous Environments and the
Degeneration of Bracero Health, 1942–1964
Mary E. Mendoza
18. Cripping East Los Angeles: Enabling Environmental Justice in Helena
María Viramontes’s Their Dogs Came with Them
Jina B. Kim
19. Neurological Diversity and Environmental (In)Justice: The Ecological
Other in Popular and Journalist Representations of Autism
Sarah Gibbons
Section 5: Interspecies and Interage Identifications
20. Precarity and Cross-Species Identification: Autism, the Critique of
Normative Cognition, and Nonspeciesism
David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder
21. Autism and Environmental Identity: Environmental Justice and the Chains
of Empathy
Robert Melchior Figueroa
22. Moving Together Side by Side: Human-Animal Comparisons in Picture Books
Elizabeth A. Wheeler
Source Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index