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SUMMARY:Sunaura Taylor\, Disabled Ecologies & Astra Taylor\, Solidarity
DESCRIPTION:Deep below the ground in Tucson\, Arizona\, lies an aquifer for
 ever altered by the detritus of a postwar Superfund site. Disabled Ecologi
 es tells the story of this contamination and its ripple effects through th
 e largely Mexican American community living above. Drawing on her own comp
 lex relationship to this long-ago injured landscape\, Sunaura Taylor takes
  us with her to follow the site's disabled ecology—the networks of disab
 ility\, both human and wild\, that are created when ecosystems are corrupt
 ed and profoundly altered.\nWhat Taylor finds is a story of entanglements 
 that reach far beyond the Sonoran Desert. These stories tell of debilitati
 ng and sometimes life-ending injuries\, but they also map out alternative 
 modes of connection\, solidarity\, and resistance—an environmentalism of
  the injured. An original and deeply personal reflection on what disabilit
 y means in an era of increasing multispecies disablement\, Disabled Ecolog
 ies is a powerful call to reflect on the kinds of care\, treatment\, and a
 ssistance this age of disability requires.\n"Taylor's is a unique and gene
 rous genius. With breath-catching insight and enveloping compassion\, she 
 shares a secret of epochal urgency: people living with injury and impairme
 nt have much to teach about how to survive\, and perhaps even thrive\, on 
 an injured and impaired planet."—Naomi Klein\, author of Doppelganger\n
 Solidarity is often invoked\, but it is rarely analyzed and poorly underst
 ood. Here\, two leading activists and thinkers survey the past\, present\,
  and future of the concept across borders of nation\, identity\, and class
  to ask: how can we build solidarity in an era of staggering inequality\, 
 polarization\, violence\, and ecological catastrophe? Offering a lively an
 d lucid history of the idea—from Ancient Rome through the first European
  and American socialists and labor organizers\, to twenty-first century so
 cial movements like Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter—Hunt-Hendr
 ix and Taylor trace the philosophical debates and political struggles that
  have shaped the modern world.\nLooking forward\, they argue that a clear 
 understanding of how solidarity is built and sustained\, and an awareness 
 of how it has been suppressed\, is essential to warding off the many crise
 s of our present: right-wing backlash\, irreversible climate damage\, wide
 spread alienation\, loneliness\, and despair. Hunt-Hendrix and Taylor insi
 st that solidarity is both a principle and a practice\, one that must be c
 ultivated and institutionalized\, so that care for the common good becomes
  the central aim of politics and social life.\n“If there was ever a time
  for an American audience to become familiar with solidarity’s deep hist
 ory\, it would be now. An epidemic of loneliness\, staggering inequality\,
  forever wars\, environmental degradation are just a small sample of the c
 urrent problems we can only face together\, not alone. It is for these rea
 sons and more that . . . Solidarity . . . proves so timely.”\n—The Nat
 ion
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