Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities

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: Kateri Tekakwi: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 Victor M. Torres-Velez 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 Maria 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