2017
DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2017.1329540
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Driving toward disability rhetorics: narrative, crip theory, and eco-ability in Mad Max: Fury Road

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“…Anthropocentrism and ecocentrism have different ability expectations of nature [280]. Eco-ableism [281] and eco-ability [282][283][284][285] are two terms coined to engage with ability expectations humans have of nature.…”
Section: Occupational Concepts and Environmental Issuesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Anthropocentrism and ecocentrism have different ability expectations of nature [280]. Eco-ableism [281] and eco-ability [282][283][284][285] are two terms coined to engage with ability expectations humans have of nature.…”
Section: Occupational Concepts and Environmental Issuesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Combining Sci-Fi’s cross-genre ‘patterning of possible worlds and possible times’ (Haraway, 2016: 31) with the posthuman qualities of the comics form, we therefore continue our empirical analyses with a reading of Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller et al., 2015) – not the film, but the subsequent comic, which positions itself as a ‘prelude’ to the film’s events. The 2015 blockbuster has been widely celebrated for its critiques of water scarcity – by NASA’s chief water expert Jay Famiglietti, no less (Onal, 2015); for its opposition to ‘normative understandings of the body by making characters with disability central to its narrative’ (Fletcher and Primack, 2017: 345); and for its critique of automobility, ecomobility and the commodification of natural resources (Pesse, 2019). For our concerns, it is worth highlighting that the narrative world of the film, Mad Max: Fury Road , is able to tell two stories – which often do not sit comfortably with one another – at the same time: on the one hand, its postapocalyptic scenario offers a collective story of (post)human solidarity in the face of the threat of the Anthropocene; and on the other, it critiques the endemic inequalities and uneven life chances that the Anthropocene throws up.…”
Section: Apocalyptic Fictions and Mad Max: Fury Roadmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These troubling portrayals are important to study, as “popular culture is a primary reference for many people” in understanding disability (Lubet and Hofmann 14). As “media texts play a pivotal role in forming social understandings of disability,” the music which represents those characters, and in turn those disabilities, is vital to the understanding of these representations (Fletcher and Primack 346). Fortunately, there has been a recent shift to more positive representations, particularly in independent films, though progress is creeping into major studio features as well (Pulrang).…”
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