Disabled Power: A Storm, a Grid, and Embodied Harm in the Age of Disaster | 誠品線上

Disabled Power: A Storm, a Grid, and Embodied Harm in the Age of Disaster

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內容簡介 Winner, 2026 Best Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association, Body & Embodiment Section Winner, 2026 Sociology of Disability in Society Outstanding Publication Award, given by the American Sociological Association, Disability in Society Section Winner, 2026 Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award, given by the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological AssociationWinner, 2026 Donald W. Light Book Award for Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology, given by the American Sociological Association, Medical Sociology Section Winner, 2026 Allan Clive Service and Spirit Memorial Award, given by the National Hurricane Conference A call to place disability at the center of climate and disaster responses Every disaster is a disability disaster, argues Angela Frederick. Disabled Power tells the stories of Texans with disabilities who endured the 2021 Texas power crisis, which forced millions of Texas residents to endure a dayslong winter storm without heat or water. Based on 58 in-depth interviews with disabled Texans and parents of disabled children, Frederick highlights how disabled people and those with chronic health conditions are uniquely harmed when basic infrastructure such as power and water systems fail. She argues that the vulnerability people with disabilities experienced during this disaster was not an inevitable consequence of individual disabled bodies. Rather, disability vulnerability was "produced" by policies that "disabled" vital infrastructure. Frederick also emphasizes another meaning of the phrase "disabled power: " the individual and collective resilience and creativity Texans with disabilities exercised to survive the disaster. Despite common perceptions of people with disabilities as passive victims, Frederick shows how many found strategies to survive and to provide and receive care within their communities. Ultimately, the implications of this disaster extend far beyond Texas and underscore our increased vulnerability to infrastructural failures as extreme weather events become more common. Disabled Power offers a blueprint for reimagining vulnerability and resilience to center people with disabilities in disaster research and emergency response.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Angela Frederick is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at El Paso.

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