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Disabled Ecologies - Lessons from a Wounded Desert

2024, Innbundet, Engelsk

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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 disab

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  • Forfatter

  • Bidragsyter

    Taylor, Sunaura
  • Forlag/Utgiver

    SD Books
  • Format

    Innbundet
  • Språk

    Engelsk
  • Utgivelsesår

    2024
  • Antall sider

    368
  • Varenummer

    9780520393066

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