Datum
20. Mai 2025
Online Lecture
Disability & Climate: In Conversation with Angela Frederick
20th May 2025
In September 2023, we launched an online ‘Disability & Climate: In conversation with…’ series for people that are interested in reflecting on and/or sharing experiences around disability and the climate crisis. This is part of the Sensing Climate project, led by the University of Exeter. You can read more about the project and tune into past events online: https://sensing-climate.com/events
Join us on Tuesday 20th May 2025, 7–8.30pm BST (12–1.30pm Central Time) for a conversation with Angela Frederick, Associate Professor of Sociology at The University of Texas at El Paso. Angela is author of the forthcoming book, ‘Disabled Power: A Storm, A Grid, and Embodied Harm in the Age of Disaster’. During our session, Angela will discuss and share findings from the book, drawing on interviews she conducted with 57 Texas residents with disabilities and parental caregivers who endured the 2021 Texas power crisis. She will reflect on how disability vulnerability was produced in the storm through a policy process that ‘disabled’ vital infrastructure, including power, water, and emergency services, while also discussing the importance of „disabled power”; the individual and collective resilience that disabled Texans exercised to survive the disaster. Read more about the session online: https://sensing-climate.com/events/angela-frederick Access the sign up form online: https://forms.office.com/e/fiPgXuGmaZ
If the sign-up forms are not accessible to you, please do email (Sarah.Bell@exeter.ac.uk) to share your interests in joining instead. We will then send round a Zoom sign-in link about a week before each event.