Part 1: Foundations -- Risking Bodies in the Wild: The "Corporeal Unconscious" of American Adventure Culture / Sarah Jaquette Ray -- Bringing Together Feminist Disability Studies and Environmental Justice / Valerie Ann Johnson -- Lead's Racial Matters / Mel Y. Chen -- Defining Eco-ability: Social Justice and the Intersectionality of Disability, Nonhuman Animals, and Ecology / Anthony J. Nocella II -- The Ecosomatic Paradigm in Literature: Merging Disability Studies and Ecocriticism / Matthew J. C. Cella -- Bodies of Nature: The Environmental Politics of Disability / Alison Kafer -- Notes on Natural Worlds, Disabled Bodies, and a Politics of Cure / Eli Clare -- Part 2: New Essays -- Section 1: Corporeal Legacies of U.S. Nation-Building -- Blind Indians: Kateri Tekakwi:tha and Joseph Amos's Visions of Indigenous Resurgence / Siobhan Senier -- Prosthetic Ecologies: (Re)Membering Disability and Rehabilitating Laos's "Secret War" / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials -- Reification, Biomedicine, and Bombs: Women's Politicization in Vieques's Social Movement / Victor M. Torres-Velez -- War Contaminants and Environmental Justice: The Case of Congenital Heart Defects in Iraq / Julie Sadler -- Section 2: (Re)Producing Toxicity -- Toxic Pregnancies: Speculative Futures, Disabling Environments, and Neoliberal Biocapital / Kelly Fritsch -- "That Night": Seeing Bhopal through the Lens of Disability and Environmental Justice Studies / Anita Mannur -- Section 3: Food Justice -- Disabling Justice? The Exclusion of People with Disabilities from the Food Justice Movement / Natasha Simpson -- Cripping Sustainability, Realizing Food Justice / Kim Q. Hall -- Section 4: Curing Crips? Narratives of Health and Space -- The Invalid Sea: Disability Studies and Environmental Justice History / Traci Brynne Voyles -- La Tierra Pica/The Soil Bites: Hazardous Environments and the Degeneration of Bracero Health, 1942-1964 / Mary E. Mendoza -- Cripping East Los Angeles: Enabling Environmental Justice in Helena Maria Viramontes's Their Dogs Came with Them / Jina B. Kim -- Neurological Diversity and Environmental (In)Justice: The Ecological Other in Popular and Journalist Representations of Autism / Sarah Gibbons -- Section 5: Interspecies and Interage Identifications -- Precarity and Cross-Species Identification: Autism, the Critique of Normative Cognition, and Nonspeciesism / David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder -- Autism and Environmental Identity: Environmental Justice and the Chains of Empathy / Robert Melchior Figueroa -- Moving Together Side by Side: Human-Animal Comparisons in Picture Books / Elizabeth A. Wheeler.
Summary:
"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." --amazon.com
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