Disabled Ecologies (eBook)

Lessons from a Wounded Desert

Sunaura Taylor (Autor)

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2024
368 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39307-3 (ISBN)

Infos

"With breath-catching insight and enveloping compassion, Sunaura Taylor shares a secret of epochal urgency: people living with injury and impairment have much to teach about how to survive, and perhaps even thrive, on an injured and impaired planet."—Naomi Klein, author of Doppelganger 

"Disabled Ecologies is a vital work of scholarship and a rousing call for solidarity between ourselves and the natural environments from which we are inseparable."—Ed Yong, author of An Immense World

A powerful analysis and call to action that reveals disability as one of the defining features of environmental devastation and resistance.

Deep below the ground in Tucson, Arizona, lies an aquifer forever altered by the detritus of a postwar Superfund site. Disabled Ecologies tells the story of this contamination and its ripple effects through the largely Mexican American community living above. Drawing on her own complex relationship to this long-ago injured landscape, Sunaura Taylor takes us with her to follow the site's disabled ecology—the networks of disability, both human and wild, that are created when ecosystems are corrupted and profoundly altered.

What Taylor finds is a story of entanglements that reach far beyond the Sonoran Desert. These stories tell of debilitating and sometimes life-ending injuries, but they also map out alternative modes of connection, solidarity, and resistance—an environmentalism of the injured. An original and deeply personal reflection on what disability means in an era of increasing multispecies disablement, Disabled Ecologies is a powerful call to reflect on the kinds of care, treatment, and assistance this age of disability requires.

Inhalt

Contents

Acknowledgments 
Keyword: Origins 

Introduction: Age of Disability 
Keyword: Ecology 

1. Desert Solidarity 
Keyword: Aquifer 

2. Impaired Landscapes 

INTERLUDE: SPECULATIVE AQUIFERS

Keyword: Disability 

3. What Happened to You? (And Can You Prove It?) 
Keyword: Treatment 

4. Treating Disabled Ecologies 
Keyword: Environmentalism 

5. Environmentalism of the Injured 
Conclusion: Living with Injury 

Timeline 
Bibliography 
Index 
 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.5.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • among human • animals • Arizona • Capitalism • chronic illness • Critical disability studies • Ecological Exploitation • Ecosystems • environmental justice • feminist • impaired landscapes • liberation • Militarism • Military Industrial Complex • nonhuman entities • racial ecologies • racial violence • racialviolence • Racism • Settler Colonialism • water contamination
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39307-4 / 0520393074
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39307-3 / 9780520393073