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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 Dokumaci draws on
ethnographic work with differently disabled people whose ingenuity,
labor, and artfulness allow them to achieve these seemingly simple
tasks. Dokumaci shows how they use improvisation to imagine and
bring into being more habitable worlds through the smallest of
actions and the most fleeting of movements---what she calls
"activist affordances." Even as an environment shrinks to a set of
constraints rather than opportunities, the improvisatory space of
performance opens up to allow disabled people to imagine that same
environment otherwise. Dokumaci shows how disabled people's
activist affordances present the potential for a more liveable and
accessible world for all of us.
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 Dokumaci draws on
ethnographic work with differently disabled people whose ingenuity,
labor, and artfulness allow them to achieve these seemingly simple
tasks. Dokumaci shows how they use improvisation to imagine and
bring into being more habitable worlds through the smallest of
actions and the most fleeting of movements---what she calls
"activist affordances." Even as an environment shrinks to a set of
constraints rather than opportunities, the improvisatory space of
performance opens up to allow disabled people to imagine that same
environment otherwise. Dokumaci shows how disabled people's
activist affordances present the potential for a more liveable and
accessible world for all of us.
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