[Linganth] Arseli Dokumaci discusses her new book

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Arseli Dokumaci  chats with Nate Tilton on the CaMP anthropology blog
today, engaging with his questions about her book, Activist Affordances:
How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds.

campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: or 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.
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