Cart
Free Shipping in the UK
Proud to be B-Corp

Disabled Ecologies Sunaura Taylor

Disabled Ecologies By Sunaura Taylor

Disabled Ecologies by Sunaura Taylor


£18.69
Condition - New
Only 4 left

Disabled Ecologies Summary

Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert by Sunaura Taylor

A powerful analysis and call to action thatreveals 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 ecologythe 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 resistancean 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 Sunaura Taylor

Sunaura Taylor is Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of the American Book Awardwinning Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation.

Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments
Keyword: Origins

Introduction: Age of Disability
Keyword: Ecology

1. Desert Solidarity
Keyword: Aquifer

2. Impaired Landscapes

INTERLUDE: SPECULATIVE AQUIFERS

Keyword: Disability

3. What Happened to You? (And Can You Prove It?)
Keyword: Treatment

4. Treating Disabled Ecologies
Keyword: Environmentalism

5. Environmentalism of the Injured
Conclusion: Living with Injury

Timeline
Bibliography
Index

Additional information

NGR9780520393066
9780520393066
0520393066
Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert by Sunaura Taylor
New
Hardback
University of California Press
2024-05-21
368
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a new book - be the first to read this copy. With untouched pages and a perfect binding, your brand new copy is ready to be opened for the first time

Customer Reviews - Disabled Ecologies