Review of <i>Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds</i> by Arseli Dokumac� (Duke University Press)

Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds by Arseli Dokumac� builds upon theories of affordances through the concept of �activist affordances,� which describes the �performative microacts/-arts through which disabled people enact and bring into being the worlds that are not already available to them, the worlds they need and wish to dwell in� (5). Activist Affordances takes a non-Westernized view of disability that makes room for the complexities of pain, illness, and the nonhuman world. Dokumac��s Activist Affordances is a necessary and fresh expansion of disability�beyond the Western conception of the term�that encompasses the disablement of other species in order to resist human exceptionalism, and to better address the destruction colonization, racialization, and capitalism has wrought on the earth and its inhabitants. Activist Affordances is a widely applicable piece of scholarly literature that offers strategies for survival in our increasingly precarious world.In Maroon Choreography, fahima ife follows the policing of Black and Indigenous life across Western modernity in a series of meditations on the �discipling� of the English language in literature and pedagogy, asking us to consider how the afterlife or afterlives of slavery and the present reality of coloniality echoes in our more closely held assumptions about the relationship between language and power. Each of the book�s four sections meditates on a particular aspect of these contradictions, unpacking how certain intellectual projects and submerged knowledges cannot be understood in �disciplined English.� These stylistic choices function on both a creative and critical level, leaving us with a text that will challenge a wide range of audiences across the humanities and be instructive in our classrooms and workshops.