Parting the Waters is a special forum of Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal (RDS) guest-edited by hristopher Johnstone and Alex Lubet of the University of Minnesota. The forum includes articles focused on current events, theory, literature, and historical perspectives within the context of events such as urricane Katrina, 9/11, AIDS in Africa, the Southeast Asian Tsunami, the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the Montreal Ice Storm. Contributors come from a variety of fields such as social work, psychology, landscape architecture, English, and music and include Mark Priestley, David Mitchell & Sharon Snyder, and Grace & Thomas Christ. Parting the Waters is a significant contribution to our global understanding of the socially-constructed problems of disability and disaster.
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