Format:
1 online resource (197 pages)
ISBN:
9781000020915
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment Ser.
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 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 Natureculture in the Age of the Genome -- Genomic Histories and Cultural Genomics -- The Future Genomics -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367271053
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Nayar, Pramod K. Ecoprecarity New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019 ISBN 9780367271053
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Ökologie
;
Biopolitik
;
Anti-Utopie
;
Literatur
;
Ecocriticism
;
Anti-Utopie
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=5773125
Author information:
Nayar, Pramod K.
