Disability, Climate Change, and Environmental Violence: The Politics of Invisibility and the Horizon of Hope
Disability, Climate Change, and Environmental Violence: The Politics of Invisibility and the Horizon of Hope
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残疾、气候变化和环境暴力：隐形的政治和希望的地平线
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2020
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Julia Watts Belser
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Julia Watts Belser
这篇文章将残疾理论和行动主义与环境正义进行了对话，这一对话经常受到接近残疾的根本差异的阻碍。环境正义运动将残疾定位为环境危害的内在标志，而残疾运动则声称残疾是一个有价值和活力的地方，我称之为“残疾拥抱”。我没有评判这些差异，而是用它们来指出政治联盟的障碍：环境残疾是结构性暴力的后果。我认为，残疾政治为应对气候变化提供了至关重要的资源。将残疾研究和残疾行动主义的见解应用于环境损害分析，揭示了诊断的政治利害关系——权力决定我们如何、何时、以何种方式认识到人类和生态损害。残疾洞察揭示了普遍存在的不可见和否认气候变化的文化模式。对未来和治疗的残疾批评也可以重新配置我们接近希望的方式，并有助于形成一种新的叙事，即在人类世中生活得更好可能意味着什么。
This article brings disability theory and activism into conversation with environmental justice, a conversation that has often been stymied by a fundamental difference in approaching disability. Environmental justice movements position disability as a visceral marker of environmental harm, while disability movements claim disability as a site of value and vitality, a position I call "disability embrace." Rather than adjudicate these differences, I use them to pinpoint a barrier to political alliance: environmental disability is a consequence of structural violence. I argue that disability politics offer vital resources for grappling with climate change. Applying insights from disability studies and disability activism to the analysis of environmental damage reveals the political stakes of diagnosis—the way power contours how, when, and to what ends we recognize human and ecological impairment. Disability insights illuminate pervasive cultural patterns of invisibility and climate denial. Disability critiques of futurity and cure can also reconfigure the way we approach hope and help fashion a new narrative of what it might mean to live well in the Anthropocene.