{"id":34019,"date":"2026-04-22T08:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/?p=34019"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:09:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:09:49","slug":"professor-kelly-fritsch-publishes-new-book-broken-worlds-disabled-kin-strategies-for-collective-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/2026\/professor-kelly-fritsch-publishes-new-book-broken-worlds-disabled-kin-strategies-for-collective-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Kelly Fritsch Publishes New Book\u00a0&#8220;Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-7xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-7xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 60%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Professor Kelly Fritsch Publishes New Book\u00a0&#8220;Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival&#8221;\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n                    <div class=\"cu-textmedia-bgimg flex-1 rounded-xl bg-no-repeat bg-cover \" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2026\/04\/download-4-768x664.png); background-position: 58% 44%; transform: scale(1);\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"791\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2026\/04\/download-3-512x791.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2026\/04\/download-3-512x791.png 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2026\/04\/download-3-320x495.png 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2026\/04\/download-3.png 647w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations&nbsp;to Professor Kelly Fritsch on the publication of her new book,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.upress.umn.edu%2F9781517919733%2Fbroken-worlds-disabled-kin%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CKileyJohnston%40cunet.carleton.ca%7Cdcb3ed396c824240f4fb08de9fbdc508%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C639123834577417188%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=zmfH1vfIw7TP8EZHh2nsccRzYpkLl1gj8Ybx%2B3dCEJU%3D&amp;reserved=0\"><em>Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival<\/em><\/a><em>,&nbsp;<\/em>co-authored with Anne McGuire. Responding to the ways hostile social and economic structures such as racial capitalism, neoliberalism, and settler colonialism unevenly target certain populations and environments, the authors put forward the making of disabled kin as a way to foster solidarity and collective survival in a world all too often broken by design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book is available&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmanifold.umn.edu%2Fprojects%2Ffritsch-mcguire-9781452976501&amp;data=05%7C02%7CKileyJohnston%40cunet.carleton.ca%7Ca48bcc0e4b5e41c3372d08de9fcec121%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C639123907519074218%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=SiKW%2BNMHip11KTn3zGJO0Ngo3ufa0trLcyfodMdaJis%3D&amp;reserved=0\">open access<\/a>&nbsp;through the University of Minnesota\u2019s Manifold Series or you can buy it at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fz.umn.edu%2Fb8y8&amp;data=05%7C02%7CKileyJohnston%40cunet.carleton.ca%7Ca48bcc0e4b5e41c3372d08de9fcec121%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C639123907519103698%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=6%2BR4dlyDhFywi1BH4zZX22Si%2BhNeTz1HFRC0ZD03RQ4%3D&amp;reserved=0\">z.umn.edu\/b8y8<\/a>&nbsp;and save 30% with code&nbsp;<strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">MNUTPS26&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Save the date for the Ottawa book launch happening Sept 25, 2026, 6 pm, at Carleton\u2019s Dominion Chalmers<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>with discussants Remi Yergeau, Michael Orsini, and Natalie Kouri-Towe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations&nbsp;to Professor Kelly Fritsch on the publication of her new book,&nbsp;Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival,&nbsp;co-authored with Anne McGuire. 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