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This powerful intersectional social justice book examines animal, disability, and environmental oppression and justice. Located in disability studies, sociology, environmental justice, food justice, and critical animal studies, this book engages the reader in an intersectional ecological manner for an inclusive interdependent global community. This outstanding collection of original articles by scholars from around the world discusses the need to acknowledge the relationships among nonhuman animals, those with disabilities, and the environment. Adaptive sports from mountain biking to rock climbing is saving the lives of those with disabilities from extreme depression and suicide at the same time those with disabilities are becoming some of the most loyal advocates for defending the environment from human destruction. Those with disabilities are being welcomed into the animal rights movement and also introduced to nonhuman animals not as merely service animals, but as friends, allies, and companions.
List of contents
Dedication - Acknowledgements - Clifton Sanders:Foreword - Lea Lani Kinikini:Preface - Amber E. George/Anthony J. Nocella II: Introduction: Getting in the Outdoors with Disabilities: Fun, Collaboration, and Total Liberation - Chapter One S. Marek Muller: Got Autism? - Chapter Two Daniel Salomon: Getting to Solidarity: Toward An Interest-Based Conflict Resolution Approach To Resolving The Conflict between Ecoability Equity and Animal Equity - Chapter Three Birkan Tas: Selection for and against Disability: Assistance Dogs - Chapter Four Zoie (Zane) McNeill/ Rebecca Eli Long: Queering the Animate Body: Toxicity, Ecoability, and Multi-Species Biopolitics in Duplin County, North Carolina - Chapter Five T.N. Rowan:Trauma-Informed Activism: New Directions for Interpsecies Trauma in Ecoability and Critical Animal Studies - Elisa Stone: Afterword - Contributors' Biographies - Index
About the author
Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., scholar-activist, is an editor of the Peace Studies Journal and a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Salt Lake Community College. He is the co-founder of disability pedagogy, critical animal studies, terrorization, and ecoability and has published over one hundred articles and forty books.
Amber E. George, Ph.D., editor of the Journal for Critical Animal Studies, is Assistant Professor at Galen College where she teaches courses in philosophy, sociology, and cultural studies. Dr. George most recently edited Gender and Sexuality in Critical Animal Studies and The Intersectionality of Critical Animal, Disability, and Environmental Studies.
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This powerful intersectional social justice book examines animal, disability, and environmental oppression and justice.
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"This wonderfully insightful book challenges us to think more deeply and critically about social justice efforts, liberatory practices, and the intersectionality of people, animals, the environment. It's a must read for anyone committed to transformational social change."-Jason Del Gandio, Co-editor, Spontaneous Combustion: The Eros Effect and Global Revolution
