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... for me as an environmental humanities scholar and a disabled woman. Hull gives us space to think about the affective ties between disability (visible and invisible) and ravaged environments. In this brief entry, I give shape to these affective ties by exploring the relation between physical disability...

...Aimi Hamraie Abstract This article responds to two diverging notions of “livability”: the normative New Urbanist imaginary of livable cities, where the urban good life manifests in neoliberal consumer cultures, green gentrification, and inaccessible infrastructures, and the feminist and disability...

... fires raging in the territory known as the Land of Fires, between the provinces of Naples and Caserta, in southern Italy. Thinking with the sprouting intersection of environmental humanities and disability justice, while rooted in a critical environmental justice and transfeminist standpoint...

... prisoner-patients to a geographically restricted place and minimizing visits from outsiders. 64 The move to relocate populations deemed undesirable—whether prisoners, individuals with disabilities, or the sick—to marginalized lands has been a tactic of containment practiced by colonial powers...

... Disability in Postconflict Laos .” Somatosphere . June 29 , 2015 . somatosphere.net/2015/06/bomb-ecologies-inhabiting-disability-in-postconflict-laos.html . ...

.... In these attempts at survival—these (albeit unsuccessful) resistances to slaughter—we can envision resistances to alienation. 93 Yet thinking from a critical disability studies perspective reminds us that estrangement is contingent upon specific social relations. Whereas on the farm, animals are ensured...

... studies; microbiology; ecology; environmental studies; food studies; gender and sexual diversity studies; critical disability and mad studies; critical and creative studies; contemporary art history; and women’s and feminist history. One of the factors that is pivotal to the fermentation process...

... of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, after Man, Its Overrepresentation—an Argument .” CR: The New Centennial Review 3 , no. 3 ( 2003 ): 257 – 337 . Zoanni Tyler . “ The Possibilities of Failure: Personhood and Cognitive Disability in Urban Uganda .” Cambridge Journal...

... the bodies of disabled people. 23 As with the analysis of the transgender fish, here the risk is that the desire for uncontaminated places will translate into a rejection and hatred of supposedly “polluted” or “damaged” bodies. Nor can we simply say water pollution is caused by bad sexual bodies who...

... World , 35 . 10. Scappettone, “Jennifer Scappettone.” The author externality also approximates what Mel Y. Chen calls an intoxicated method : a “hypothetical mode of approach that refuses idealized research positions by ‘critically disabling’ the idealized cognitive and conceptual lens...

... Screened-In , explained by Sandi Bohle, a friend and Lyme activist, as “a disability-art class-conscious documentary” of their Hawley-Green neighborhood in Syracuse, New York, “photographed entirely from behind the windows” of their apartment. 69 This series consists of 119 photographs...

... l'interaffectivité .” Alter: European Journal of Disability Research 10 ( 2002 ): 315 - 337 . Nagel Thomas . “ What Is it Like to Be a Bat? ” The Philosophical Review LXXXIII, no. 4 ( 1974 ): 435 - 50 . Painter Corinne M. “ Appropriating the Philosophies of Edmund Husserl and Edith Stein...

... the relays had to be disabled—in cases when parts of the system were undergoing repair, for instance, or in the rare case that the other line had also been disabled by a flashover—the total procedure might take 30 seconds. 59 After about two years of operation under the new system, Wood confidently...

....” 32 Such a site could be considered an apposite symbol for a disenchanted world. However, as Bennett argues, “[one] way to loosen the hold of the disenchantment tale . . . is to keep an eye out for practices and experiences that are anomalous within a world understood to be wonder-disabled. In other...

..., an anthropocentric approach actually disables all manner of human experience and knowledge in relation to nonhumans. 13 Far more interesting is the research of ethologists who ask questions that are both more simple and more complex: do animals (for example) experience an emotional life? Do animals have...

... Plains, USA .” Open Journal of Soil Science 3 , no. 8 ( 2013 ): 374 – 78 . Nussbaum Martha . Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership . Cambridge MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2006 . Nussbaum Martha . Sex and Social Justice...

... are thus just the beginning of a long period of indeterminacy, or being “a little bit pregnant.” Standardized reproductive technologies impose biopolitical norms: legions of unborn disabled children with chromosomal anomalies and neural tube problems have been eliminated from the human population...

.... Nevertheless, on a relative scale of imperviousness, SAD indicates sensitivity to seasonal changes to a degree that can be disabling. People with SAD (or who are SAD, to follow the persistent punning of headlines) are strongly affected by the environment. Today, however, disordered affect might be the more...

... overpowers our will to heal—then the decline will be much more rapid than the decline of the dinosaurs, and another species or group of species will inherit the earth.” 11 Here, eugenics mandates a normate (to use US disability theorist Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s term) as representative human...

... become ever more aware that monologue stifles knowledge of connection and disables the possibilities whereby ‘self’ finds its own meaning and purpose through entangled encounters and responsibilities with others.” 38 Dowsing is an attempt to shrink the distance between self and other and to expand...