Description
| Product ID: | 9781478019244 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Activist Affordances |
| Subtitle: | How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds |
| Authors: | Author: Arseli Dokumaci |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | Disability: social aspects, Disability: social aspects, Social and cultural anthropology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Arseli Dokumaci draws on ethnographic work with differently disabled people whose ingenuity, labor, and artfulness allows them to achieve seemingly daily tasks like lifting a glass of water or taking clothes off. 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. In Activist Affordances, Arseli Dokumacı draws on ethnographic work with differently disabled people whose ingenuity, labor, and artfulness allow them to achieve these seemingly simple tasks. Dokumacı shows how they use improvisation to imagine and bring into being more habitable worlds through the smallest of actions and the most fleeting of movements---what she calls “activist affordances.” Even as an environment shrinks to a set of constraints rather than opportunities, the improvisatory space of performance opens up to allow disabled people to imagine that same environment otherwise. Dokumacı shows how disabled people’s activist affordances present the potential for a more liveable and accessible world for all of us. |
| Imprint Name: | Duke University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Duke University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-03-03 |
