Disabled Ecologies By Sunaura Taylor 9780520393066 (Hardback)

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Applied ecology

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Wordery

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University of california press

Disabled Ecologies : University of California Press : 9780520393066 : 0520393066 : 09 Jul 2024 : "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

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