Crip theories, critical access studies, and critical disability studies challenge normative ideas of time, place and “liveability.” Interrogating the intersection of “healthy” environments, body normativities, race, and the neoliberal economization of life, this week’s readings invite us to consider different kinds of futures at the so-called end of the world. Lead Composter: Astrida Neimanis When: […]

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Calls to declare “climate emergency” are spreading around the world. In this COMPOSTING we critically reflect on the notion of emergency and the proliferation of declarations of emergency in relation to climate change. This session is different from others. Rather than reading scholarly work, we will collectively read “primary materials”—the call for the declarations and […]

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