| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 223 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge environmental humanities |
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Routledge environmental humanities.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Time we are living in -- 2 About this book -- 3 Situating the 'we' -- 4 Monstrosity, race and the archives -- 5 The role of visual culture -- 6 The book's contents -- Notes -- References -- Films -- TV series -- Exhibitions -- Chapter 1: The past devours the present: Fears of invasion and the repressed memory of colonial violence -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Hic sunt cannibals -- 3 Living dead and devouring monsters |
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4 The rise of the undead -- 5 Post-colonial apocalypses -- 6 Of progress and its reversals -- 7 Of rabid post-humans, terrorists and migrants -- 8 Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Films -- TV Series -- Chapter 2: Alien-ing the migrant: On Anthropocenic geographies of monstrosity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A history of Outsiding -- 3 Othering, bordering and Other(world)ing -- 4 The semiotic power of the border -- 5 Segregating the monster, eliminating the Otherworldly -- 6 Co-existing in walled spaces -- 7 Unsettling communications -- 8 Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Films -- TV series |
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Art -- Chapter 3: Lifting the veil on themonstrous Anthropocene: A postcolonial analysis -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The drowned and the saved in the Anthropocene -- 3 Enduring dualisms, monstrous geontologies -- 4 Fighting within and against the monstrous Anthropocene -- 5 The (white) saviour of civilisation -- 6 Surviving the catastrophe: human selection, renewal and genetic modification -- 7 Trans-corporeal and intra-active mutations -- 8 Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Films -- TV series -- Exhibitions -- Conclusions |
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1 COVID-19: chronicles of the 'we' in the time of the pandemic (March 2020) -- 1.1 The virus spreads where the Anthropocene wastes -- 1.2 The last men on Earth -- 1.3 Under siege -- 1.4 I cannot touch you -- 1.5 Inside the 'red zone' -- 1.6 As heard on TV. And other tales from social media14 -- 1.7 The unwitting spreaders are young and run fast -- 1.8 Neoliberalism, social Darwinism and the pandemic -- 1.9 The vulnerable within us -- 1.10 A cry from the margins: when the expendable revolt -- 1.11 We cannot grieve you -- 1.12 Not everyone can stay home -- 1.13 Chaos outside the ivory tower |
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1.14 Will techno-science save us? -- 1.15 Echoes of hope from the 'red zone' -- 1.16 A human future must come -- 2 The end of the word as the 'we' knows it? -- Notes -- Films -- TV series -- Index |
| Summary |
"Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene: A Postcolonial Critique explores European and Western imaginaries of natural disaster, mass migration and terrorism through a postcolonial inquiry into modern conceptions of monstrosity and catastrophe. This book uses established icons of popular visual culture in sci-fi, doomsday and horror films and TV series, as well as in images reproduced by the news media to help trace the genealogy of modern fears to ontologies and logics of the Anthropocene. By logics of the Anthropocene, the book refers to a set of principles based on ontologies of exploitation, extermination, and natural resource exhaustion processes determining who is worthy of benefiting from value extraction and being saved from the catastrophe and who is expendable. Fears for the loss of isolation from the unworthy and the expendable are investigated here as originating anxieties against migrants' invasions, terrorist attacks and planetary catastrophes, in a thread that weaves together re-emerging 'past nightmares' and future visions. This book will be of great interest to students and academics of the Environmental Humanities, Human and Cultural Geography, Political Philosophy, Psychosocial Studies, Postcolonial Studies and Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, Gender Studies and Postcolonial Feminist Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, Cinema Studies and Visual Studies"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Dr. Gaia Giuliani is Researcher at Centro de Estudos Sociais, University of Coimbra, Portugal |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 11, 2020) |
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Fear -- Social aspects
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Risk perception.
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Disasters -- Social aspects
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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Terrorism -- Social aspects
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Monsters in mass media.
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Monsters -- Symbolic aspects.
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Horror films -- Social aspects
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NATURE / Ecology
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Terrorism
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Disasters -- Social aspects
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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Fear -- Social aspects
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Monsters in mass media
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Monsters -- Symbolic aspects
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Risk perception
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Terrorism -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020023113 |
| ISBN |
1351064843 |
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9781351064866 |
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135106486X |
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9781351064859 |
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1351064851 |
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9781351064835 |
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1351064835 |
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9781351064842 |
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