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The text asks how cultures that label disabled and unwanted humans also make animals seem deserving of the same treatment, and how educational spaces can be reconfigured through “retying knots.” It connects university-level classroom research to possibilities for “enabling” cultural work that actively engages disability and ecofeminist paradigms.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":40,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/research-report/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/culture-as-ability-rethinking-enabling-educational-spaces-for-humans-and-animals/596716/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/culture-as-ability-rethinking-enabling-educational-spaces-for-humans-and-animals/596716.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"Muffet","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-29","2026-10-15",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":29},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"What encounter anchors the paper’s argument?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"The paper draws on a multispecies ethnographic encounter with a physically disabled feral kitten named Whiskey, used to frame disability and ecofeminist questions about cultural labeling.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"How does the text link disability to ethics and animal killability?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"It contrasts a culture that treats certain animal bodies as “humane” and killable while doing so to humans is considered murder, then asks whether such logic extends to adopted animals like Whiskey.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"What approach does the author propose for educational spaces?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"The paper suggests reconfiguring educational spaces through “retying knots,” using disability studies and ecofeminist paradigms to divest animals of stigmatizing labels and enable cultural work.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},596716,1792210837,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":39,"category_name":40,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":29,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":139,"language":140,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":144,"read_time":36,"preview_page_count":4},962090768927,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_085a072bc5b1113ac321206ff7593b45","Culture as Ability: Organizing Enabling Educative Spaces for Humans and Animals  \nTeresa Lloro-Bidart, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, United States  \nAbstract  \nDrawing on a multispecies ethnographic encounter with a physically disabled feral kitten, Whiskey, I take an intersectional theoretical approach to place disability studies in conversation with ecofeminist perspectives. In so doing I ask: How does a culture that produces disabled and unwanted humans render animals deserving of the same label? And how might we reconfigure this culture through “retying knots” in educational spaces so as to divest animals of these labels? To conclude, I draw on a vignette from my own ethnographic research and teaching at the university level to offer possibilities for “enabling” cultural work in educational settings that explicitly draws on and engages ecofeminist and disability studies paradigms.  \nRésumé  \nMettant à profit une rencontre ethnographique multi-espèces avec un chaton handicapé et ensauvagé, Whiskey, j’adopte une approche intercatégorielle et théorique pour mettre en contact les études sur l’invalidité et les perspectives écoféministes. Ce faisant, je pose la question : comment sefait-il qu’une culture créant des êtres humains estropiés et indésirés réserve-t-elle le même sort aux animaux? Et comment pouvons-nous reconfigurer cette culture en « renouant les liens » dans les espaces éducatifs de façon à épargner ce sort aux animaux? En conclusion, j’ai recours à un aperçu provenant de mes propres recherches et de mon enseignement ethnographiques en milieu universitaire afin de proposer des moyens de soi-disant permettre le travail culturel dans les environnements éducatifs en vue de tirer parti de façon clairement affirmée des modèles d’études sur l’écoféminisme et l’invalidité et d’y donner libre cours.  \nKeywords: disability, ableism, anthropology of education, posthumanism, ecofeminism, multispecies ethnography  \nConfronting Culture as Disability  \nWhen I spied the feral kitten in the mass of bushes shrouding the side of a home next to mine—he was the “feral kitten” then and not “Whiskey”—I hesitatedin attempting to capture him. My family and I had rescued and homed many ill feral kittens during the last year and I was, admittedly, exasperated. My love of all things furry triumphed, however, and I rushed over to scoop him into my  \n92 Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 20, 2015  \narms. I was instantly enamored with his fluffy black and white fur and sweet kitten face, and this made it all the more shocking when I realized three of his four legs were severely twisted. When I set him on the ground to walk, he seemed to traipse around just fine, but he appeared as a tiny contortionist with each step. I knew he was “disabled” and instantly wondered if he knew the same.  \nInhabiting a cultural milieu where it is “humane” and “ethical” to make certain animal bodies killable—the sick, disabled, homeless, feral, or aging—while paradoxically, doing the same to humans is usually considered murder, I immediately wondered if the kitten should be euthanized.1 As a domesticated animal intentionally bred to rely on humans for care, he also had a physical disability that “counted” in his surroundings. Leaving him in my neighbour’s yard would make him fodder for local predators and his inability to climb fencesand trees left him unable to hunt and vulnerable to starvation. He would have been the archetype for what ecologists and naturalistic ethicists deem sick, dying, or injured animals that predators benevolently remove from the gene pool (Callicott, 1980; Taylor, 2014b) . I also felt uneasy in realizing that his “disability”and feral status might also count in America’s cultural space, where nearly three million adoptable dogs and cats die in shelters each year (The Humane Society of the United States, 2013) .“Disabled” and “feral” ones like Whiskey seemed doubly disadvantaged, as they demand additional resou","cbCaieOsbWBt4GWC","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieOsbWBt4GWC","pdf",1413451,16,"English","# Abstract\n# Confronting Culture as Disability\n## The kitten encounter and disability\n## Humane ethics, killability, and cultural framing\n## Disability studies and ecofeminism in educational spaces","[{\"question\":\"What encounter anchors the paper’s argument?\",\"answer\":\"The paper draws on a multispecies ethnographic encounter with a physically disabled feral kitten named Whiskey, used to frame disability and ecofeminist questions about cultural labeling.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the text link disability to ethics and animal killability?\",\"answer\":\"It contrasts a culture that treats certain animal bodies as “humane” and killable while doing so to humans is considered murder, then asks whether such logic extends to adopted animals like Whiskey.\"},{\"question\":\"What approach does the author propose for educational spaces?\",\"answer\":\"The paper suggests reconfiguring educational spaces through “retying knots,” using disability studies and ecofeminist paradigms to divest animals of stigmatizing labels and enable cultural work.\"}]","Culture as Ability - Rethinking Enabling Educational Spaces for Humans and Animals | PDF",1792083583]