Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds

by Arseli Dokumaci

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478019247
• ISBN13: 9781478019244
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"