Ecoprecarity : vulnerable lives in literature and culture / Pramod K. Nayar
- Author:
- Nayar, Pramod K.
- Published:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
- Copyright Date:
- ©2019
- Physical Description:
- ix, 185 pages ; 24 cm.
- Series:
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Ecoprecarity: An Introduction -- 2.Biosecurity and Invasion in the `Outbreak Narrative' -- Hosts, Contagions and the Invasion/Outbreak Narrative -- Frames of Apprehension, Precarity and Their Necrospective History -- The `Host' Body -- The Grotesque Body -- The Human, the Clone and the Organs -- 3.Dystopias and the `Ecological Uncanny' -- Ecological Thought and the Dystopian Imagination -- The Antiquarian Uncanny and Ecoprecarity -- The Architectural Uncanny -- Spectral Landscapes -- Waste and the Ecological Uncanny -- Waste and the Decadent Sublime -- The Decadent Sublime and the Uncanny -- Ecodystopias and Their Reproductive Uncanny -- Pathological Reproduction and Uncanny Kinship -- Teratogenesis and Species Reproduction -- 4.The Wild and Its Feral Biopolitics -- The Idea of Wilderness in the Age of Precarity -- Carnal Geographies -- `Nature Red in Tooth and Claw' -- Carnal Geography as Animal Heterotopia -- Feral Biopolitics -- The Feral and the Idea of Human Civilization -- Postnatural Wilderness and the Feral -- Feral Childhoods -- 5.Live Capital, Bioeconomies and Endangered Belonging -- The Precarious Bodies of Biocapitalism -- Possession and Labour -- The Judicialization of Life Itself -- Genetic Citizenship and Precarious Belonging -- Community, Genetic Ancestry and Belonging -- The Quest for Origin(al)s -- Tales of the Vanishing Subject -- The Romance of Species Cosmopolitanism -- Precarious Nature culture in the Age of the Genome -- Genomic Histories and Cultural Genomics -- The Future Genomics.
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- ISBN:
- 9780367271053 hardcover alkaline paper
0367271052 hardcover alkaline paper - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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