The latest in a number of disability studies texts we have indexed at Southwest Humanities, Arseli Dokumacı’s forthcoming Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds (Duke University Press, 2023) will be published in April. This unflinching and comprehensive work discusses the mundane improvisations differently abled people have innovated to navigate a world that is not designed around their needs. “For people who are living with disability, including various forms of chronic diseases and chronic pain, daily tasks like lifting a glass of water or taking off clothes can be difficult if not impossible…. Activist Affordances…draws on ethnographic work with differently disabled people whose ingenuity, labor, and artfulness allow them to achieve these seemingly simple tasks.” Please follow the link here for more information about this exciting new title.
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