Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-Crip Theory Contributor(s): Ray, Sarah Jaquette (Editor), Sibara, Jay (Editor), Alaimo, Stacy (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0803278454 ISBN-13: 9780803278455 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $66.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | People With Disabilities - Nature | Essays - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare |
Dewey: 362.4 |
LCCN: 2017936592 |
Physical Information: 1.63" H x 6" W x 9" (2.54 lbs) 684 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Physically Challenged |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Although 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." Sarah Jaquette Ray is an associate professor of environmental studies and program leader of the Environmental Studies Program at Humboldt State University. She is the author of The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture. Jay Sibara is an assistant professor of English at Colby College and a member of the Access Initiative of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. Stacy Alaimo is a distinguished teaching professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington and the author of Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self and Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times. |