Animals, Disability, and the End of Capitalism : Voices from the Eco-ability Movement

Animals, Disability, and the End of Capitalism is a collection of essays from the leaders in the field of eco-ability. The book is rooted in critical pedagogy, inclusive education, and environmental education. The efforts of diverse disability activists work to weave together the complex diversity and vastly overlooked interconnections among nature, ability, and animals. Eco-ability challenges social constructions, binaries, domination, and normalcy. Contributors challenge the concepts of disability, animal, and nature in relation to human and man. Eco-ability stresses the interdependent relationship among everything and how the effect of one action such as the extinction of a species in Africa can affect the ecosystem in Northern California. Animals, Disability, and the End of Capitalism is timely and offers important critical insight from within the growing movement and the current academic climate for such scholarship. The book also provides insights and examples of radical experiences, pedagogical projects, and perspectives shaped by critical animal studies, critical environmental studies, and critical disability studies.

Contributors include Sarah R. Adams, Marissa Anderson, Judy K. C. Bentley, Mary Fantaske, Amber E. George, Ava HaberkornHalm, John Lupinacci, Hannah Monroe, Anthony J. Nocella II, Nicole R. Pallotta, Meneka Repka, and Daniel Salomon.

Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Salt Lake Community College. He has published over fifty peer-reviewed book chapters or articles and over forty books. He is the editor of the Peace Studies Journal and Executive Director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies.

Amber E. George, Ph.D., is a scholar-activist who taught at Misericordia University, and currently teaches philosophy at Galen College. Dr. George is a member of the Eco-ability Collective and Executive Director of Finance of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies. She is also the editor of the Journal of Critical Animal Studies.

John Lupinacci, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at Washington State University, where he teaches in the Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education (CSSTE) program. His work examines the relationships between schools and the reproduction of the cultural roots of social suffering and environmental degradation.