Disabled Ecologies

“A well-crafted narrative that focuses on people while drawing important conclusions about the way our relationship to the natural world is hampered by an exploitative mindset and a reluctance to face consequences.” * California Review of Books *
“Disabled Ecologies ultimately urges readers to reflect on the kinds of care, treatment and assistance this age of disability requires.” * Berkeleyside *
“In a remarkably fertile inquiry, Taylor takes insights from disability studies and environmental justice and arrives at new revelations that enrich both movements—while also applying far beyond them, to our whole impaired and magnificent planet.” * Boston Review *
“Disabled Ecologies introduces a new term to the theoretical lexicon… . Applying the category of disability to the environment allows Taylor to recognize how human experience is entangled with the nonhuman, which in turn reveals the histories of environmental activism led by disabled activists. A frame of thinking like ‘disabled ecologies’ will be important as climate change promises a future where environmental disability is all around us.” * H-Net Reviews *
“Disability, animality, and ecology are astutely interconnected and co-produced by existing power relations perpetuated by the capitalist system. Taylor’s analysis makes it clear that the forces of destruction often hide behind the ideology of economic growth.” * Nature and Culture *
“Forming an instructive theoretical basis for an ‘environmentalism of the injured,’ Disabled Ecologies is a beautifully written, captivating feat of archival work. Utilizing the networks of disability created by the U.S. military industrial complex, the book proposes ways we might leverage our interconnectedness on local and global levels to resist.” * Electric Literature *

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.

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