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"Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds" by Arseli Dokumaci is a highly valuable book that explores the concept of activist affordances and how disabled individuals create livable worlds for themselves. The book discusses innovative concepts such as shrinkage, the habitus of ableism, and visual ethnography, offering insights into the experiences of disabled individuals and the challenges they face. Dokumaci's scholarship is relevant to various fields, including anthropology, performance studies, occupational therapy, and sustainability studies. The book has received praise from scholars and readers alike, resonating with their own experiences and providing strategies to navigate difficult times. [Extracted from the article]

How can we practice an "anthropology of disability" that is in respectful alliance with the disabled people and disability groups we study? What does critical theory making look like within the politics of such collaborative practice? What valued expertise do anthropologists offer and what do anthropologists gain? In an age of austerity and precarity in academia and in general, disabled people and disability groups struggle for survival while secure funding for grants and programs supporting graduate students and emerging scholars is increasingly precarious. In what interdependent spaces is it possible to imagine disabled activists and scholars working together for survival into an uncertain future? These questions stand at the heart of this collaborative auto-ethnographic essay. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]