Resources | Wang Center Symposium – The Matter of Loneliness

Cacioppo, John T., & Patrick, William. (2008). Loneliness: Human nature and the need for social connection (1st. ed). Norton. (PLU Library link)
Hargittai, Eszter. (2022). Connected in isolation: Digital privilege in unsettled times. The MIT Press. (PLU Library link)
Seefeldt, Kristin S. (2017). Abandoned families: Social isolation in the twenty-first century. Russell Sage Foundation. (PLU Library link)
Stauffer, Jill. (2015). Ethical loneliness: The injustice of not being heard. Columbia University Press. (PLU Library link)

Abramowitz, Alan. (2018). The great alignment: Race, party transformation, and the rise of Donald Trump. Yale University Press. (PLU Library link)
Whippman, Ruth. (2016). America the anxious: How our pursuit of happiness is creating a nation of nervous wrecks (First U.S. edition). St. Martin’s Press. (PLU Library link)

Ortiz, Naomi. (2023). Rituals for climate change: A crip struggle for ecojustice (1st ed.). punctum books. (PLU Library link) (Open access link)
Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi. (2018). Care work: Dreaming disability justice. Arsenal Pulp Press. (PLU Library link)
Schalk, Sami. (2022). Black disability politics. Duke University Press. (PLU Library Link) (Open access link)
Sins Invalid. (2019). Skin, tooth, and bone: The basis of movement is our people : a disability justice primer (Second edition.). Berkeley. (Link to purchase book)
Wilson, Jan Doolittle. (2021). Becoming disabled: Forging a disability view of the world. Lexington Books. (PLU Library link)

Mattei, Clara E. (2022). The capital order : how economists invented austerity and paved the way to fascism. The University of Chicago Press. (PLU Library link)
O’Connor, Brian. (2018). Idleness: A philosophical essay. Princeton University Press. (PLU Library link)

Deerinwater, Jen. (2022). Colonial forces of environmental violence on deaf, disabled, & ill indigenous people. Disability Studies Quarterly, 41(4). https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v41i4.8479
Gilio-Whitaker, Dina. (2019). As long as grass grows: The indigenous fight for environmental justice, from colonization to Standing Rock. Beacon Press. (PLU Library link)
Glave, Dianne D. (2010). Rooted in the earth: Reclaiming the African American environmental heritage (1st ed). Lawrence Hill Books. (PLU Library link)
Jenkins, Willis, Tucker, Mary Evelyn, & Grim, John (Eds.). (2018). Routledge handbook of religion and ecology. Routledge, Taylor & Francis group. (PLU Library link)
Ray, Sarah J., Sibara, Jay, & Alaimo, Stacy. (Eds.). (2017). Disability studies and the environmental humanities: Toward an eco-crip theory. University of Nebraska Press. (Link to purchase book)
Watts Belser, Julia. (2020). Disability, climate change, and environmental violence: The politics of invisibility and the horizon of hope. Disability Studies Quarterly, 40(4). https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v40i4.6959

CDC. (2023, May 8). Health risks of social isolation and loneliness. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/emotional-wellbeing/social-connectedness/loneliness.htm
Office of the Surgeon General (OSG). (2023). Our epidemic of loneliness and isolation: The u. S. Surgeon general’s advisory on the healing effects of social connection and community. US Department of Health and Human Services. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK595227/ (Direct PDF download)
The profound power of loneliness. (2016, February 3). National Science Foundation. https://new.nsf.gov/news/profound-power-loneliness
Why Americans are lonelier and its effects on our health. (2023, January 8). PBS NewsHour. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-americans-are-lonelier-and-its-effects-on-our-health

The Atlantic article by Hillary Rodham Clinton, AUGUST 7, 2023