{"product_id":"disability-studies-and-the-environmental-humanities-9781496204950","title":"Disability Studies and the Environmental","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesigned 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDisability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-crip Theory\u003c\/i\u003e examines the intersections of disability studies and environmentalism, and represents one of the first substantial collections of essays that explore this emerging area of inquiry in a pointed, interdisciplinary, and intersectional manner.\"—Christine Junker, \u003ci\u003eISLE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDisability Studies and the Environmental Humanities\u003c\/i\u003e charts an exciting and urgent new direction in scholarship for environmental literary critics and the environmental humanities more broadly.\"—Mary Foltz, \u003ci\u003eThe Year’s Work in English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The most significant disability studies anthology to emerge in years. It is extremely important that these particular branches of academic and political work rub against each other.”—Susan M. Schweik, professor of English at the University of California–Berkeley and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ugly Laws: Disability in Public\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“Contributes to multiple fields, responding to growing curricular and scholarly interest in environmental humanities and disability studies. . . . This will be a foundational text in its own right.”—Susan Burch, associate professor of American studies at Middlebury College and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eAt the Intersections: Deaf Meets Disability Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Stacy Alaimo\u003cbr\u003e Introduction by Sarah Jaquette Ray and Jay Sibara\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Foundations\u003cbr\u003e 1. Risking Bodies in the Wild: The “Corporeal Unconscious” of American Adventure Culture\u003cbr\u003e Sarah Jaquette Ray\u003cbr\u003e 2. Bringing Together Feminist Disability Studies and Environmental Justice\u003cbr\u003e Valerie Ann Johnson\u003cbr\u003e 3. Lead’s Racial Matters\u003cbr\u003e Mel Y. Chen\u003cbr\u003e 4. Defining Eco-ability: Social Justice and the Intersectionality of Disability, Nonhuman Animals, and Ecology\u003cbr\u003e Anthony J. Nocella II\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Ecosomatic Paradigm in Literature: Merging Disability Studies and Ecocriticism\u003cbr\u003e Matthew J. C. Cella\u003cbr\u003e 6. Bodies of Nature: The Environmental Politics of Disability\u003cbr\u003e Alison Kafer\u003cbr\u003e 7. Notes on Natural Worlds, Disabled Bodies, and a Politics of Cure\u003cbr\u003e Eli Clare\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. New Essays\u003cbr\u003e Section 1: Corporeal Legacies of U.S. Nation-Building\u003cbr\u003e 8. Blind Indians: Káteri Tekakwí:tha and Joseph Amos’s Visions of Indigenous Resurgence    000\u003cbr\u003e Siobhan Senier\u003cbr\u003e 9. Prosthetic Ecologies: (Re)Membering Disability and Rehabilitating Laos’s “Secret War”\u003cbr\u003e Cathy J. Schlund-Vials\u003cbr\u003e 10. Reification, Biomedicine, and Bombs: Women’s Politicization in Vieques’s Social Movement\u003cbr\u003e Víctor M. Torres-Vélez\u003cbr\u003e 11. War Contaminants and Environmental Justice: The Case of Congenital Heart Defects in Iraq\u003cbr\u003e Julie Sadler\u003cbr\u003e Section 2: (Re)Producing Toxicity\u003cbr\u003e 12. Toxic Pregnancies: Speculative Futures, Disabling Environments, and Neoliberal Biocapital\u003cbr\u003e Kelly Fritsch\u003cbr\u003e 13. “That Night”: Seeing Bhopal through the Lens of Disability and Environmental Justice Studies\u003cbr\u003e Anita Mannur\u003cbr\u003e Section 3: Food Justice\u003cbr\u003e 14. Disabling Justice? The Exclusion of People with Disabilities from the Food Justice Movement\u003cbr\u003e Natasha Simpson\u003cbr\u003e 15. Cripping Sustainability, Realizing Food Justice\u003cbr\u003e Kim Q. Hall\u003cbr\u003e Section 4: Curing Crips? Narratives of Health and Space\u003cbr\u003e 16. The Invalid Sea: Disability Studies and Environmental Justice History\u003cbr\u003e Traci Brynne Voyles\u003cbr\u003e 17. La Tierra Pica\/The Soil Bites: Hazardous Environments and the Degeneration of Bracero Health, 1942–1964\u003cbr\u003e Mary E. Mendoza\u003cbr\u003e 18. Cripping East Los Angeles: Enabling Environmental Justice in Helena María Viramontes’s Their Dogs Came with Them\u003cbr\u003e Jina B. Kim\u003cbr\u003e 19. Neurological Diversity and Environmental (In)Justice: The Ecological Other in Popular and Journalist Representations of Autism\u003cbr\u003e Sarah Gibbons\u003cbr\u003e Section 5: Interspecies and Interage Identifications\u003cbr\u003e 20. Precarity and Cross-Species Identification: Autism, the Critique of Normative Cognition, and Nonspeciesism\u003cbr\u003e David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder\u003cbr\u003e 21. Autism and Environmental Identity: Environmental Justice and the Chains of Empathy\u003cbr\u003e Robert Melchior Figueroa\u003cbr\u003e 22. Moving Together Side by Side: Human-Animal Comparisons in Picture Books\u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth A. Wheeler\u003cbr\u003e Source Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867322528087,"sku":"9781496204950","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496204950.jpg?v=1722282787","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/disability-studies-and-the-environmental-humanities-9781496204950","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}