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Environmental Humanities

Sources from the academic field of Environmental Humanities

ableist ecologies, those that view certain people and ecosystems as, following philosopher Jasbir K. Puar, “preordained for injury and maiming.”

Sunaura Taylor • Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert

tracking the ways we resist, rupture, and disrupt that immanence and imminence aesthetically and materially.

Christina Sharpe • In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

choice360.org

I think it’s also important to admit, to attest to, and to [bear] witness to the violence of the archive of slavery, which is about erasure. There are tick marks instead of names; it’s all about the slave’s relationship to the accumulation of wealth for another. The archive doesn’t tell us the story of someone’s life.

Bettina Judd • On

Less than a year from the day I spent with Shishima, news broke that the federal government was proposing to set up a detention center for migrant children at Oklahoma’s Fort Sill; it had previously housed more than one thousand people in 2014. Before that, in 1942, it was also one of the camps holding Japanese Americans.

Rosecrans Baldwin • Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles

staged encounters.

Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire

Retrofitting, per Dolmage (2017), is an additive rather than reimaginative ideology (78). Retrofits, per Hamraie (2017), are the postdesign deviations from otherwise “normate templates,” templates that are often based on the bodyminds of cis white nondisabled men (20). In other words, retrofits are about additive deviations.

Rebecca Sanchez • Crip Authorship: Disability as Method

a new biopolitical vocabulary for expressing racial and class anxiety: instead of claiming brown and black people were biologically inferior, you claimed they were—for reasons you sympathized with, reasons that weren’t really their fault—compromised by the food and drink they ingested; all those artificial dyes had darkened them on the inside.