Environmental Disability Studies
Embodiment After the Anthropocene
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Beschreibung
This book brings together insights from critical disability studies, environmental sociology, and related fields to argue for a reimagining of disability grounded in material relationships between humans, the environment, and nonhuman actors. Through a proposed Environmental Disability Studies, it offers an innovative framework for understanding disability as a socionatural condition shaped by ecological, political, and technological forces—ultimately calling for embracing disabled knowledge for more just futures.
Responding to urgent calls for post-disciplinary tools that advance social and environmental justice, this collection situates embodiment as an epistemic resource and interrogates how materiality, knowledge production, and power co-constitute one another. It moves beyond anthropocentric models that cast disabled bodyminds as deviant, instead foregrounding the entanglements of bodies, environments, infrastructures, and toxicities. Through this lens, contributions to the collection explore justice, vulnerability, interdependence, and crip imaginaries as resources for rethinking the socionatural world. A thought-provoking contribution to contemporary debates on disability, environment, and justice, this book offers a conceptual foothold for scholars and students in disability studies, environmental sociology, science and technology studies, feminist inquiry, and related fields seeking new ways to understand embodiment, materiality, and power.
Jennifer Lai is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Vermont. Her research leverages her background in agricultural engineering and feminist science studies to examine scientific knowledge production in environmental, health, and rural community settings. Her recent publications have appeared in Agriculture and Human Values and Rural Sociology.
Rebecca Monteleone is Associate Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Toledo and works at the intersection of critical disability studies and feminist science and technology studies. She is the author of The Double Bind of Disability: How Medical Technology Shapes Bodily Authority (University of Minnesota Press, 2025) and co-editor of Disability and Social Justice in Kenya: Scholars, Policymakers, and Activists in Conversation (University of Michigan Press, 2022).
This book brings together insights from critical disability studies, environmental sociology, and related fields to argue for a reimagining of disability grounded in material relationships between humans, the environment, and nonhuman actors. Through a proposed Environmental Disability Studies, it offers an innovative framework for understanding disability as a socionatural condition shaped by ecological, political, and technological forces—ultimately calling for embracing disabled knowledge for more just futures.
Responding to urgent calls for post-disciplinary tools that advance social and environmental justice, this collection situates embodiment as an epistemic resource and interrogates how materiality, knowledge production, and power co-constitute one another. It moves beyond anthropocentric models that cast disabled bodyminds as deviant, instead foregrounding the entanglements of bodies, environments, infrastructures, and toxicities. Through this lens, contributions to the collection explore justice, vulnerability, interdependence, and crip imaginaries as resources for rethinking the socionatural world. A thought-provoking contribution to contemporary debates on disability, environment, and justice, this book offers a conceptual foothold for scholars and students in disability studies, environmental sociology, science and technology studies, feminist inquiry, and related fields seeking new ways to understand embodiment, materiality, and power.
Draws together theory and praxis from environmental sociology, feminist STS and critical disability studies Bridges disability and environmental studies to propose a socionatural model of embodiment beyond anthropocentric norms Advances justice‑oriented frameworks for responding to environmental, toxic and embodied inequalities
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Jennifer Lai
Themen in »Environmental Disability Studies«
Disability Studies Environmental Sociology Environmental Humanities Feminist Science and Technology Studies Materiality, Knowledge Production, and Power Environmental Health Conflicts Disability-Inclusive Emergency Preparedness Posthumanism and Disability Culture Disabled Personhood and Nature Disability Rights and Environmental Justice Ableism