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Monsters, catastrophes and the anthropocene
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
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
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
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
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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dr. Gaia Giuliani is Researcher at Centro de Estudos Sociais, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.