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. Lead’s 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: Káteri Tekakwí:tha and Joseph Amos’s Visions of
Indigenous Resurgence 000
Siobhan Senier
9. Prosthetic Ecologies: (Re)Membering Disability and
Rehabilitating Laos’s “Secret War”
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
10. Reification, Biomedicine, and Bombs: Women’s Politicization in
Vieques’s Social Movement
Víctor M. Torres-Vélez
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, 1942–1964
Mary E. Mendoza
18. Cripping East Los Angeles: Enabling Environmental Justice in
Helena María Viramontes’s 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
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.
"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 Year’s Work in English Studies
“The most significant disability studies anthology to emerge in
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Schweik, professor of English at the University of
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“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
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