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Eco-Ability Reading Group:

Disability, Environmental & Animal Justice

(2025: this reading group has not yet started)

 

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The Eco-Ability Reading Group: Disability, Environmental & Animal Justice will take place on the 1st Friday of the month in 2025 (always 3-4.30pm UK). Below you can find a provisional reading list.

 

If you want to, here are a few introductory studies which you can read beforehand/alongside:

  • Jenkins, Stephanie, Montford, Kelly Struthers, & Taylor, Chloë. (2020). "Disability and animality: Introduction". In: Stephanie Jenkins, Kelly Struthers Montford & Chloë Taylor (Eds), Disability and Animality: Crip Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies (pp.1-9): Routledge.

  • Johnson, Valerie Ann. (2017). "Bringing together feminist disability studies and environmental justice". In: Sarah Jaquette Ray & Jay Sibara (Eds), Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-crip Theory (pp.73-93). London: University of Nebraska Press.

  • Kafer, Alison. (2017). "Bodies of nature: The environmental politics of disability". In: Sarah Jaquette Ray & Jay Sibara (Eds), Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-crip Theory (pp.201-241). London: University of Nebraska Press.

  • Nocella II, Anthony J. (2017). "Defining eco-ability: Social justice and the intersectionality of disability, nonhuman animals, and ecology". In: Sarah Jaquette Ray & Jay Sibara (Eds), Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-crip Theory (pp.141-167). London: University of Nebraska Press.

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Suggestions of texts we already read in other reading groups are:

  • Cowing, Jess L. (2020). "Occupied Land is an Access Issue: Interventions in Feminist Disability Studies and Narratives of Indigenous Activism". Journal of Feminist Scholarship, 17 (Fall), 9-25. [Disability RG: 3 Dec 2021]

  • ​Gibbons, S. (2017). "Neurological diversity and environmental (in)justice: The ecological other in popular and journalist representations of autism." In S. J. Ray & J. Sibara (Eds.), Disability studies and the environmental humanities: Toward an eco-crip theory (pp. 531-551). London: University of Nebraska Press. [Neurodiversity RG: 17 Jan 2020]

  • Jampel, Catherine. (2018). "Intersections of disability justice, racial justice and environmental justice". Environmental Sociology, 4(1), 122-135. [Disability RG: 1 Apr 2022]

  • Kafer, A. (2013). "Bodies of nature: The environmental politics of disability," Feminist, queer, crip (pp. 129-148): Indiana University Press. [Neurodiversity RG: 17 Jan 2020]

 

 

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Reading list [provisional]

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Meeting XX: 3 Jan 2025, 3-4.30pm UK

  • Topic: Human-nature interdependency and ecopedagogy

  • Reading: Adams, Sarah R. (2019). "The interdependency of humans and nature: A plea for ecopedagogy and eco-ability activism". In: Anthony J Nocella II, Amber E George & John Lupinacci (Eds), Animals, Disability and the End of Capitalism (pp.25-37): Peter Lang.

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Meeting XX: 7 Feb 2025, 3-4.30pm UK

  • Topic: Bhopal, disability & environmental justice

  • Reading: Mannur, Anita. (2017). "'That Night': Seeing Bhopal through the lens of disability and environmental justice studies". In: Sarah Jaquette Ray & Jay Sibara (Eds), Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-crip Theory (pp.381-401). London: University of Nebraska Press.

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Meeting XX: 7 Mar 2025, 3-4.30pm UK

  • Topic: Lead, race & the environment

  • Reading: Chen, Mel Y. (2017). "Lead’s racial matters". In: Sarah Jaquette Ray & Jay Sibara (Eds), Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-crip Theory (pp.94-140). London: University of Nebraska Press.

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Meeting XX: 4 Apr 2025, 3-4.30pm UK

  • Topic: Disabled women & sustainable development in Africa

  • Reading: Chataika, Tsitsi. (2017). "Disabled Women, Urbanization and Sustainable Development in Africa". In: Anita Lacey (Ed), Women, Urbanization and Sustainability: Practices of Survival, Adaptation and Resistance (pp.177-196). London: Palgrave Macmillan.

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Meeting XX: 2 May 2025, 3-4.30pm UK

  • Topic: Toxic pregnancies & neoliberal capital

  • Reading: Fritsch, Kelly. (2017). "Toxic pregnancies: Speculative futures, disabling environments, and neoliberal biocapital". In: Sarah Jaquette Ray & Jay Sibara (Eds), Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-crip Theory (pp.359-380). London: University of Nebraska Press.

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Meeting XX: 6 Jun 2025, 3-4.30pm UK

  • Topic: Ticks, veganism & logics of debility

  • Reading: Falek, Joshua, & Butler, Cameron. (2020). "Tricky Ticks and Vegan Quips: The Lone Star Tick and Logics of Debility". Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 9(2), pp.157-183.

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Meeting XX: 4 Jul 2025, 3-4.30pm UK

  • Topic: Anti-racism, anti-ableism and critical animal studies

  • Reading: Nocella II, Anthony J, George, Amber E, Lupinacci, John, et al. (2019). "Critical Animal Studies and the importance of anti-racist and anti-ableist politics". In: Anthony J Nocella II, Amber E George & John Lupinacci (Eds), Animals, Disability and the End of Capitalism (pp.9-23): Peter Lang.

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Meeting XX: 1 Aug 2025, 3-4.30pm UK

  • Topic: Animal crips

  • Reading: Taylor, Sunaura. (2020). "Animal crips". In: Stephanie Jenkins, Kelly Struthers Montford & Chloë Taylor (Eds), Disability and Animality. Crip Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies (pp.13-34): Routledge.

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Meeting XX: 15 Sep 2025, 3-4.30pm UK

  • Topic: Disability & disaster risk reduction

  • Reading: Spurway, Kim, & Griffiths, Thao. (2016). "Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction: Vulnerability and Resilience Discourses, Policies and Practices". In: Shaun Grech & Karen Soldatic (Eds), Disability in the Global South: The Critical Handbook (pp.469-482). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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Meeting XX: 3 Oct 2025, 3-4.30pm UK

  • Topic: Cross-species identifcation, autism & cognition

  • Reading: Mitchell, David T, & Snyder, Sharon L. (2017). "Precarity and cross-species identification: Autism, the critique of normative cognition, and nonspeciesism". In: Sarah Jaquette Ray & Jay Sibara (Eds), Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-crip Theory (pp.553-572). London: University of Nebraska Press.

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Meeting XX: 7 Nov 2025, 3-4.30pm UK

  • Topic: Veganism as universal design

  • Reading: Taylor, Chloë, & Montford, Kelly Struthers. (2020). "Veganism as universal design: Accommodation and inclusion in law and social justice praxis". In: Stephanie Jenkins, Kelly Struthers Montford & Chloë Taylor (Eds), Disability and Animality: Crip Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies (pp.129-157): Routledge.

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Meeting XX: 5 Dec 2025, 3-4.30pm UK

  • Topic: Ecosomatism, ecocriticsm, disability literature 

  • Reading: Cella, Matthew J.C. (2017). "The ecosomatic paradigm in literature: Merging disability studies and ecocriticism". In: Sarah Jaquette Ray & Jay Sibara (Eds), Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-crip Theory (pp.169-200). London: University of Nebraska Press.

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Reading lit Eco-Ability RG
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