Dec 6, 2023 2 min read

Activist Affordances

Cover of Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds by Arseli Dokumaci. The top half of the cover is black with white text, and the bottom is a photo of a hand holding a spoon in an improvised grip, with a blurred background of a torso in a striped shirt.

Hello book lovers and party people! Here I am sharing a giveaway of 2 paperback copies of Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds by Arseli Dokumaci available from Duke University Press. Details below.

About the book

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 Dokumacı draws on ethnographic work with differently disabled people whose ingenuity, labor, and artfulness allow them to achieve these seemingly simple tasks. Dokumacı 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. Dokumacı shows how disabled people’s activist affordances present the potential for a more liveable and accessible world for all of us.

Hello, this is Arseli, an olive-skinned woman in her early 40s, gently smiling at the camera. I’m outside with a jumper on, where the grass is still green, and the trees have leaves. Photo credit, Roi Saade 2022.

About the author

Arseli Dokumacı is Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies and Media Technologies and Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University.

Details

1) Any disabled person in the US or Canada is eligible for this giveaway. You do not need to disclose any details about your disability.

If you already received a book from one of my previous giveaways, please consider letting other people have a chance.

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