{"product_id":"disability-studies-and-the-environmental-humanities-toward-an-eco-crip-theory-paperback-softback-9781496204950","title":"Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities; Toward an Eco-Crip Theory (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496204950","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDisability Studies and the Environmental Humanities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eToward an Eco-Crip Theory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSarah Jaquette Ray (Edited by), Jay Sibara (Edited by), Stacy Alaimo (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496204950\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 June 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e684 pages, 12 photographs, 6 illustrations, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 4 cm, 1.01 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\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  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\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\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough 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.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Designed as a reader for undergraduate and graduate courses, \u003ci\u003eDisability Studies and the Environmental Humanities\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\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 “\u003cbr\u003eCorporeal Unconscious”\u003cbr\u003e 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’\u003cbr\u003es 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: KÁ\u003cbr\u003eteri TekakwÍ\u003cbr\u003e:tha and Joseph Amos’\u003cbr\u003es Visions of Indigenous Resurgence    000\u003cbr\u003e Siobhan Senier\u003cbr\u003e 9. Prosthetic Ecologies: (Re)Membering Disability and Rehabilitating Laos’\u003cbr\u003es “\u003cbr\u003eSecret War”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Cathy J. Schlund-Vials\u003cbr\u003e 10. Reification, Biomedicine, and Bombs: Women’\u003cbr\u003es Politicization in Vieques’\u003cbr\u003es Social Movement\u003cbr\u003e VÍ\u003cbr\u003ector M. Torres-VÉ\u003cbr\u003elez\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. “\u003cbr\u003eThat Night”\u003cbr\u003e: 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–\u003cbr\u003e1964\u003cbr\u003e Mary E. Mendoza\u003cbr\u003e 18. Cripping East Los Angeles: Enabling Environmental Justice in Helena MarÍ\u003cbr\u003ea Viramontes’\u003cbr\u003es 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\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685306888472,"sku":"9781496204950","price":30.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/disability-studies-and-the-environmental-humanities-toward-an-eco-crip-theory-paperback-softback-9781496204950","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}