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Availability:In StockContributor:Sunaura TaylorPublish date:8/5/2025Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520424692ISBN-10:520424697UPC:9780520424692Book Category:Social Science, NatureBook Subcategory:People with Disabilities, Environmental Conservation & Protection, EcologySize:8.90 x 5.80 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCJVCY2FF8
"With breath-catching insight and enveloping compassion, Sunaura Taylor shares a secret of epochal urgency: people living with injury and impairment have much to teach about how to survive, and perhaps even thrive, on an injured and impaired planet."--Naomi Klein, author of Doppelganger

A powerful analysis and call to action that reveals 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 ecology--the 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 resistance--an 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520424692ISBN-10:520424697UPC:9780520424692Book Category:Social Science, NatureBook Subcategory:People with Disabilities, Environmental Conservation & Protection, EcologySize:8.90 x 5.80 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCJVCY2FF8
Sunaura Taylor is Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of the American Book Award-winning Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation.
Publisher: University of California Press

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