Disability

This chapter places disability studies in conversation with environmental humanities to explore the relationship between disability and the environment. The first section, “Envisioning the Environment”, discusses theoretical perspectives for understanding how disability constitutes and is constituted by the cultural constructs and embodied experiences in human and nonhuman environments. The second section, “Interrogating Vulnerability and Responsibility”, goes further to provide historical perspectives on the systemic inequities that structure the various place-based interactions of disabled bodyminds – with a focus on the global legacies of neoliberal capitalism, imperialism, racialised science and technology, and gender and class dynamics. The third section, “Conclusion: Remaking Inclusive Spaces”, concludes with a discussion of how intersectional scholarship and collaboration can expand the social and ecological imaginary of inclusive futures of disability.