Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities

"Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-crip Theory examines the intersections of disability studies and environmentalism, and represents one of the first substantial collections of essays that explore this emerging area of inquiry in a pointed, interdisciplinary, and intersectional manner."Christine Junker, ISLE "Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities charts an exciting and urgent new direction in scholarship for environmental literary critics and the environmental humanities more broadly."Mary Foltz, The Years Work in English Studies The most significant disability studies anthology to emerge in years. It is extremely important that these particular branches of academic and political work rub against each other.Susan M. Schweik, professor of English at the University of CaliforniaBerkeley and author of The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public Contributes to multiple fields, responding to growing curricular and scholarly interest in environmental humanities and disability studies. . . . This will be a foundational text in its own right.Susan Burch, associate professor of American studies at Middlebury College and coeditor of At the Intersections: Deaf Meets Disability Studies

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.

Foreword by Stacy Alaimo Introduction by Sarah Jaquette Ray and Jay Sibara Part 1. Foundations 1. Risking Bodies in the Wild: The Corporeal Unconscious of American Adventure Culture Sarah Jaquette Ray 2. Bringing Together Feminist Disability Studies and Environmental Justice Valerie Ann Johnson 3. Leads Racial Matters Mel Y. Chen 4. Defining Eco-ability: Social Justice and the Intersectionality of Disability, Nonhuman Animals, and Ecology Anthony J. Nocella II 5. The Ecosomatic Paradigm in Literature: Merging Disability Studies and Ecocriticism Matthew J. C. Cella 6. Bodies of Nature: The Environmental Politics of Disability Alison Kafer 7. 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 8. Blind Indians: Kteri Tekakw:tha and Joseph Amoss Visions of Indigenous Resurgence 000 Siobhan Senier 9. Prosthetic Ecologies: (Re)Membering Disability and Rehabilitating Laoss Secret War Cathy J. Schlund-Vials 10. Reification, Biomedicine, and Bombs: Womens Politicization in Viequess Social Movement Vctor M. Torres-Vlez 11. War Contaminants and Environmental Justice: The Case of Congenital Heart Defects in Iraq Julie Sadler Section 2: (Re)Producing Toxicity 12. Toxic Pregnancies: Speculative Futures, Disabling Environments, and Neoliberal Biocapital Kelly Fritsch 13. That Night: Seeing Bhopal through the Lens of Disability and Environmental Justice Studies Anita Mannur Section 3: Food Justice 14. Disabling Justice? The Exclusion of People with Disabilities from the Food Justice Movement Natasha Simpson 15. Cripping Sustainability, Realizing Food Justice Kim Q. Hall Section 4: Curing Crips? Narratives of Health and Space 16. The Invalid Sea: Disability Studies and Environmental Justice History Traci Brynne Voyles 17. La Tierra Pica/The Soil Bites: Hazardous Environments and the Degeneration of Bracero Health, 19421964 Mary E. Mendoza 18. Cripping East Los Angeles: Enabling Environmental Justice in Helena Mara Viramontess Their Dogs Came with Them Jina B. Kim 19. Neurological Diversity and Environmental (In)Justice: The Ecological Other in Popular and Journalist Representations of Autism Sarah Gibbons Section 5: Interspecies and Interage Identifications 20. Precarity and Cross-Species Identification: Autism, the Critique of Normative Cognition, and Nonspeciesism David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder 21. Autism and Environmental Identity: Environmental Justice and the Chains of Empathy Robert Melchior Figueroa 22. Moving Together Side by Side: Human-Animal Comparisons in Picture Books Elizabeth A. Wheeler Source Acknowledgments Contributors Index