Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism

Drawing on contemporary and historic literary and media examples of Western colonialism and Anglophone writings, Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism traces how the perverse nature of colonialism continues to dominate the globe today.

The editor and contributors provide a careful analysis of the intersection of disability, the environment, and colonialism to understand issues such as eco-ableism, environmental degradation, homogenized approaches to environmentalism, and climate change. They also look at the body as a site of colonial oppression and environmental exploitation.

Contributors: Holly Caldwell, Matthew J. C. Cella, John Gulledge, Memona Hossain, Nancy J. Hirschmann, Iain Hutchison, Andrew B. Jenks, Suha Kudsieh, Gordon M. Sayre, Jessica A. Schwartz, Anna Stenning, Aubrey Tang, Alice Wexler, and the editor.

Tatiana Konrad is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna, Austria; the principal investigator of “Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World;” and the editor of the “Environment, Health, and Well-being” book series at Michigan State University Press. She is the author of Docu-Fictions of War: U.S. Interventionism in Film and Literature; the editor of Imagining Air: Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility; Plastics, Environment, Culture, and the Politics of Waste; Cold War II: Hollywood’s Renewed Obsession with Russia; and Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change: Accelerating Ride to Global Crisis; and coeditor of Cultures of War in Graphic Novels: Violence, Trauma, and Memory.