The Wounded Wild: Ecology and Disability [Online]
Full Tuition: $320 — Scholarship options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select.
Instructor: Jaime Madden | 5 Weeks | Tuesdays | May 28 - June 25 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM ET | ONLINE
The Environmental Protection Agency judges that nearly half of the rivers and streams in the US are “impaired waters.” Interpreting this, artist and theorist Sunaura Taylor says: “That’s a lot of bodies to bring into disabled community.” What if “disabled community” is not just made up of humans, but also includes bodies of land and water and nonhuman animals? In our class, we’ll take seriously the language of “impaired waters,” “sickly seas,” and “dying forests” and we’ll work to understand disability beyond the human. We’ll study significant excerpts from Taylor’s new book called Disabled Ecologies and we’ll learn from visual art, poetry, and accounts of personal experience. We’ll face the fact that nonhuman animals are regularly made disabled for profit, aquifers are judged for their usefulness to capital, and ableism privileges traits and modes of communication that are thought to be human. In order to think about disability ecologically, we will need to expand our understanding of not just “disabled community” but also of justice and liberation. In this class, students with a range of experiences and knowledges will find opportunities to learn and contribute, and no prior familiarity with disability studies or the environmental humanities is necessary.
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Recordings may be provided upon request for missed classes.
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