{"product_id":"disability-the-environment-and-colonialism-paperback-softback-9781439925218","title":"Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism (Paperback \/ softback) 9781439925218","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDisability, the Environment, and Colonialism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTatiana Konrad (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781439925218\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 August 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e358 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.454 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\u003ci\u003e“Konrad has brought together a dynamic set of scholars who have deeply considered the very real implications of the environment crises and systems of colonial rule in relation to questions of disability justice. \u003c\/i\u003eDisability, the Environment, and Colonialism\u003ci\u003e is an important book that offers a unique contribution to disability concerns beyond the western canon.”\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003cb\u003eKaren Soldatić\u003c\/b\u003e, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Health Equity and Community Wellbeing at Toronto Metropolitan University, and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eGlobal Perspectives on Disability Activism and Advocacy: Our Way\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e“Although colonialism is most often understood as geographical violence, this book demonstrates that such violence is equally, simultaneously, and constitutively bodily violence and that disability is not just an unintended consequence of the colonial enterprise but the very means by which a nation-state’s biopower is exercised and sustained. Training a disability lens on the history of green colonialism reveals just how much ableism has activated-and continues to activate-the racial ecology of imperial conquest. \u003c\/i\u003eDisability, the Environment, and Colonialism\u003ci\u003e fills a critical gap in that scholarship.”\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003cb\u003eSarah Jaquette Ray\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor of Environmental Studies at California State Polytechnic University Humboldt, and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDrawing on contemporary and historic literary and media examples of Western colonialism and Anglophone writings, \u003ci\u003eDisability, the Environment, and Colonialism\u003c\/i\u003e traces how the perverse nature of colonialism continues to dominate the globe today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The editor and contributors provide a careful analysis of the intersection of disability, the environment, and colonialism to understand issues such as eco-ableism, environmental degradation, homogenized approaches to environmentalism, and climate change. They also look at the body as a site of colonial oppression and environmental exploitation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors: Holly Caldwell, Matthew J. C. Cella, John Gulledge, Memona Hossain, Nancy J. Hirschmann, Iain Hutchison, Andrew B. Jenks, Suha Kudsieh, Gordon M. Sayre, Jessica A. Schwartz, Anna Stenning, Aubrey Tang, Alice Wexler, and the editor.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676617634072,"sku":"9781439925218","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/disability-the-environment-and-colonialism-paperback-softback-9781439925218","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}