Description
"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
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.
About the Author
Sunaura Taylor is Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of the American Book Award-winning Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation.
Reviews
"A well-crafted narrative that focuses on people while drawing important conclusions about the way our relationship to the natural world is hampered by an exploitative mindset and a reluctance to face consequences." * California Review of Books *
"Disabled Ecologies ultimately urges readers to reflect on the kinds of care, treatment and assistance this age of disability requires." * Berkeleyside *
"In a remarkably fertile inquiry, Taylor takes insights from disability studies and environmental justice and arrives at new revelations that enrich both movements-while also applying far beyond them, to our whole impaired and magnificent planet." * Boston Review *
Book Information
ISBN 9780520393066
Author Sunaura Taylor
Format Hardback
Page Count 368
Imprint University of California Press
Publisher University of California Press
Weight(grams) 635g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 33mm
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.
About the Author
Sunaura Taylor is Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of the American Book Award-winning Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation.
Reviews
"A well-crafted narrative that focuses on people while drawing important conclusions about the way our relationship to the natural world is hampered by an exploitative mindset and a reluctance to face consequences." * California Review of Books *
"Disabled Ecologies ultimately urges readers to reflect on the kinds of care, treatment and assistance this age of disability requires." * Berkeleyside *
"In a remarkably fertile inquiry, Taylor takes insights from disability studies and environmental justice and arrives at new revelations that enrich both movements-while also applying far beyond them, to our whole impaired and magnificent planet." * Boston Review *
Book Information
ISBN 9780520393066
Author Sunaura Taylor
Format Hardback
Page Count 368
Imprint University of California Press
Publisher University of California Press
Weight(grams) 635g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 33mm
