Placing Disability presents an international collection of personal essays that address the
experience of disability in particular geographical locations. Each chapter engages the
question of what it means to be disabled in a specific place exploring issues of movement
work and play community and activism artistic production love and marriage access and
social services family and friendship memory and aging-all informed by the places that people
inhabit. The book is organized in terms of topographies and vistas rather than being bound by
the map to emphasize the defining constitutive effects of place. The authors included in
Placing Disability hail from different countries neighborhoods climates and landscapes from
various backgrounds and professions from a range of disciplinary perspectives and strategies.
They are trained as academics literary critics poets students public speakers memoirists
educators philosophers administrators and activists. Their essays refine our understanding
of the complex dynamic between self and circumstance as they survey the impact of geographical
region on their life experiences. This book is intended to be useful in creative-writing
workshops Disability Studies seminars and classes on environmental literature and to appeal
to general readers of memoir as well as to scholars of contemporary body theory or the
Anthropocene.
