Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin

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Strategies for Collective Survival

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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A call to remake our world through a new politics of disabled kin-makingWe live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate and kill through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic abandonment, and ecological negligence. Fixes for these forms of breakage often conceal and amplify harm – but what happens if we refuse to rehabilitate this inhospitable world? In Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin, Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire urge an alternative response through abolition, access, care, and interdependence.Bringing a much-needed disability studies lens to discussions of public policy, legal reform, and social change, Fritsch and McGuire show how hostile social and economic structures such as racial capitalism, neoliberalism, and settler colonialism unevenly target certain populations and environments. As they trace how everyday encounters with broken infrastructures like inaccessible transit, fragmented mental health care, and crumbling educational institutions reflect broader patterns of structural abandonment and slow violence, they pose a radical means of response: the making of disabled kin. Ranging from mundane disruptions to global crises like pandemics, wars, genocides, and climate collapse, they demonstrate how disabled kin-making nurtures connection and support between people, ecologies, infrastructures, and objects, cultivating a collective "we" that can contest systems broken by design.Urgent and passionate, Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin asks readers to reexamine conceptions of breakage, maintenance, and repair, viewing them as tools of abolition and justice. Against relentless fragmentation and atomization, this book equips us with a politics of solidarity and collectivity with which to begin making a more life-supporting world.Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-04-21
Mått140 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt510 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor368
FörlagUniversity of Minnesota Press
ISBN9781517919726

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Kelly Fritsch is Canada Research Chair in Disability, Health, and Social Justice and associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. She is coauthor, with Anne McGuire, of We Move Together, an award-winning children's book about accessibility and disability culture, and coeditor of Disability Injustice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada and Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle.Anne McGuire is associate professor in critical disability studies and director of the program for Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity at the University of Toronto. She is author of War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence, which was awarded the Tobin Siebers prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities.

ContentsPreface. Icebreaker: Broken AtmospheresIntroduction: Breakdown1. Break a Sweat: Fashioning Alterations Against Normative Inclusions2. Break the Bank: Making Irrevocable Shattering Visible3. Break Open: Spectrums of Risk and the Promise of Disability Inheritances4. Break Rank: Holding It Together with Disabled Kin5. Take a Break: Challenging Structures of Mental Health from the Fragments of Our Wreckage6. Jail Break: Collective Solidarity Against Involuntary Rehabilitation7. Breakwater: Disability in Dangerous Times8. Breaking Point: Confronting Broken Infrastructure with Crip Maintenance9. Break Loose: Unraveling Protective Fabrics10. Record Breaking: Making Disabled Kin on a Burning Planet11. Break Even: Contesting Hostile Futures with Disabled KinAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"Timely and innovative, Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin enters urgent conversations in disability studies and disability justice about how to survive and world-build in perilous times. Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire adeptly trace the complicated ways that brokenness, repair, and maintenance practices sit in relation to racial capitalism, colonial pasts and presents, racialized ableism, and its eugenic manifests. This book is a needed and nuanced unfurling of disability wisdom." —Alyson Patsavas, University of Illinois Chicago"I've been waiting for a book like this for so many years, and it's showing up at the exact moment when it's needed the most. Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin is a crucial intervention that can help us see the way forward when it feels like the world is collapsing (it is). This book is a most vital archive of the ways that, bit by bit, disabled, mad, and BIPOC people are weaving a web of kinship and freedom in the face of death, demonstrating how our brokenness is a way out of hell." —Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, author of The Way Disabled People Love Each Other, The Future Is Disabled, and Care Work