Disability, the environment, and colonialism / edited by Tatiana Konrad.

Contents Foreword / Tsitsi Chataika -- Introduction. Unnatural Bodies: Colonialism, Disability, and the Environment / Tatiana Konrad -- Part I. Justice, Imperialism, and Eco-Ableism 1. Disability Rights as a "Global" Norm: Environmentalism, Post-Colonialism, and the Meaning of Disability in the Majority World / Andrew B. Jenks -- 2. Disability, Colonialism, and Environmental Theory: A Political Theory Perspective / Nancy J. Hirschmann -- 3. (Post)Colonialism, Eco-Ableism, and the Production of Knowledge / Memona Hossain -- 4. Rights and Responsibilities in Australia: Debility and Dispossession in Settler Colonialism / Alice Wexler -- Part II. Redefining Blindness and Deafness through (Dis)Ability, Colonialism, and the Environment. 5. Blind Horizons: The Worlds of People with Sight Loss during Scotland's Long Nineteenth Century / Iain Hutchison -- 6. Curing a "Toxic Condition": Deafness and Public Health Policy during the Porfiriato / Holly Caldwell -- 7. The Blindness of Colonial Modernity: A Blind Man's Remembrance of Things Past / Aubrey Tang -- Part III. Disabled Bodies, Ecologies, and Imperialist Subjectivities. 8. Dis/Enabling Spaces: Crip-Ecologies of Shakespeare's The Tempest / John Gulledge -- 9. The Superfluous Who "Neither Produce like the Poor nor Consume like the Rich": Eugenics and the "Coloniality of Ability" in Edward Thomas' The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans (1913) / Anna Stenning -- 10. The Damaging Effects of Western Neoliberal Policies and Local Corruption in Indra Sinha's Animal's People / Suha Kudsieh -- Part IV. Colonialism, (Dis)Ability, and Nature in and through America. 11. American Degeneracy: Colonial Science and Environmental Anxiety in the Eighteenth Century / Gordon M. Sayre -- 12. The Bison and the Plow: Eco-Ableism and the Conquest of the Great Plains / Matthew J. C. Cella -- 13. The (Un)Making of Voice: Nuclear Colonialism, Disability, and Toxic Environmentalism in Marshallese Music / Jessica A. Schwartz.
Abstract "Aligning discourses surrounding hegemonic colonial visions of the environment and disability, this volume illustrates the ways in which colonial understandings of disability were and continue to be defined by relationships with the environment, collectively creating a form of eco-ableism that continues to this day"-- Provided by publisher.
General noteIncludes index.
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