Description
| Product ID: | 9780520393066 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Disabled Ecologies |
| Subtitle: | Lessons from a Wounded Desert |
| Authors: | Author: Sunaura Taylor |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Subjects: | Social and ethical issues, Social issues & processes, Disability: social aspects, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Political activism / Political engagement, Applied ecology, Conservation of the environment, Disability: social aspects, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Political activism, Applied ecology, Conservation of the environment |
| Description: | 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-05-21 |