The Body, the Earth. The Participation of Disabled People in the Environmental Discourse

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ID22358946
AutoresChiara Montalti (0000-0001-8218-2431, University of Salento, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume3
Fascículo1
Páginas31-43
Data de publicação2024-01-04
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Ecohumanism (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2752-6798 • E-ISSN: 2752-6801
EditoraCreative Publishing House (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.33182/joe.v3i1.3071
OpenAlexW4390589849
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas16

The essay aims to challenge the position of disability within environmental analyses and activism. I explore the broad environmentally focused discourse: namely, I will refer to the sociocultural texts, ideologies and worldviews that are implicated in the accounts of the environmental crises provoked by climate change. Which subjects have a voice, and which tend to remain in the background? Should the environmental discourse be understood as “neutral”, because of what is at stake on a global level? I will consider these concerns through the lens of disability. Firstly, I will explore how disability usually functions as a signpost for two issues: (I) disabled people are represented as victims of the precarious living conditions exacerbated by climate change and environmental devastation and, (II) disability is employed as a cautionary tale regarding the outcomes of environmental devastation. Secondly, I will examine a performance called “The Mermaid”, by Australian artist Hanna Cormick, which addresses the intersection of disability and environmental damage. I will read Cormick’s work through Donna Haraway’s concept of witness, proposing an update of environmental discourses. The aim behind this new framework is to positively situate disabled people: they should play an active role in addressing toxicity, capitalist extractivism and the entangled nature between the human subject and the environment

Disabled people · Environmental ethics · Environmental movement · Environmentalism · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Witness · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law

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