Disabled Ecologies Lab

Disabled Ecologies Lab Statement

The Disabled Ecologies Lab is located in UC Berkeley’s department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, and is directed by  Dr. Sunaura Taylor. The Disabled Ecologies Lab serves as a space to critically examine the intersections of disability, the environment, and the more-than-human world. This is a particularly urgent task given the mass multi-species disablement increasingly caused by environmental devastation. The DE Lab aims to envision anti-ableist responses to the most pressing environmental issues of our time. 

The DE Lab meets regularly throughout the fall and spring semesters, and is devoted to offering graduate students and visiting scholars the opportunity to engage with and respond to one another’s work. The DE Lab supports and encourages academic research, multidisciplinary projects, and community engagement.

Lab members focus on a variety of arenas including: critical heat studies; disaster studies, deinstitutionalization and environmental racism; land stewardship; multispecies studies and critical animal studies; climate adaptation; and the consequences of colonial extraction and pollution upon disabled communities. 

The DE Lab is committed to understanding disability as fundamentally intersectional and political.

To learn more about the Disabled Ecologies Lab, to be added to its listserv, or to visit a lab session, send queries to Disabled Ecologies Lab Manager Benjamin Bartu (bbartu@berkeley.edu) and Dr. Sunaura Taylor (sct@berkeley.edu).