DISABLED ECOLOGIES

With breath catching insight and enveloping compassion Sunaura Taylor shares a secret of epochal urgency people living with injury and impairment have much to teach about how to survive and perhaps even thrive on an injured and impaired planet Naomi Klein author of Doppelganger Disabled Ecologies is a vital work of scholarship and a rousing call for solidarity between ourselves and the natural environments from which we are inseparable Ed Yong author of An Immense WorldA powerful analysis and call to action that reveals disability as one of the defining features of environmental devastation and resistance Deep below the ground in Tucson Arizona lies an aquifer forever altered by the detritus of a postwar Superfund site Disabled Ecologies tells the story of this contamination and its ripple effects through the largely Mexican American community living above Drawing on her own complex relationship to this long ago injured landscape Sunaura Taylor takes us with her to follow the site s disabled ecology the networks of disability both human and wild that are created when ecosystems are corrupted and profoundly altered What Taylor finds is a story of entanglements that reach far beyond the Sonoran Desert These stories tell of debilitating and sometimes