Ecoprecarity

<p>Ecoprecarity: Vulnerable Lives in Literature and Culture presents an examination of ecoprecarity - the precarious lives that <i>humans </i>lead in the process and event of ecological disaster, and the increasing precarious state of the environment itself as a result of human interventions - in contemporary literary-cultural texts. It studies the representation of 'invasion narratives' of the human body and the earth by alien life forms, the ecodystopian vision that informs much environmental thought in popular cultures, the states of ontological integrity and genetic belonging in the age of cloning, xenotransplantation and biotechnology's 'capitalisation' of life itself, and the construction of the 'wild' in these texts. It pays attention to the ecological uncanny and the monstrous that haunts ecodystopias and forms of natureculture that emerge in the bioeconomies since the late twentieth century.</p> <p>Chapter 1: <b>Ecoprecarity: An Introduction</b> [6280]</p><p>Chapter 2: Biosecurity and Invasion in the ‘Outbreak Narrative’ [11883]</p><p></p><p>Hosts, Contagions and the Invasion/Outbreak Narrative</p><p></p><p>Frames of Apprehension, Precarity and their Necrospective History</p><p></p><p>The ‘Host’ Body</p><p></p><p>The Grotesque Body</p><p></p><p>The Human, the Clone and the Organs</p><p>Chapter 3: <b>Dystopias and the ‘Ecological Uncanny’</b> [21630] </p><p></p><p>Ecological Thought and the Dystopian Imagination </p><p></p><p>The Antiquarian Uncanny and Ecoprecarity</p><p></p><p>The Architectural Uncanny</p><p></p><p>Spectral Landscapes</p><p></p><p>Waste and the Ecological Uncanny</p><p></p><p>Waste and the Decadent Sublime</p><p></p><p>The Decadent Sublime and the Uncanny</p><p></p><p>Ecodystopias and their Reproductive Uncanny</p><p></p><p>Pathological Reproduction and Uncanny Kinship</p><p></p><p>Teratogenesis and Species Reproduction</p><p>Chapter 4 The Wild and Its Feral Biopolitics [14150]</p><p></p><p>The Idea of Wilderness in the Age of Precarity </p><p></p><p>Carnal Geographies</p><p></p><p>‘Nature Red in Tooth and Claw’</p><p></p><p>Carnal Geography as Animal Heterotopia</p><p></p><p>Feral Biopolitics</p><p></p><p>The Feral and the Idea of Human Civilization</p><p></p><p>Postnatural Wilderness and the Feral</p><p></p><p>Feral Childhoods</p><p>Chapter 5: Live Capital, Bioeconomies and Endangered Belonging [19500]</p><p></p><p>The Precarious Bodies of Biocapitalism</p><p></p><p>Possession and Labour</p><p></p><p>The Judicialization of Life itself</p><p></p><p>Genetic Citizenship and Precarious Belonging</p><p></p><p>Community, Genetic Ancestry and Belonging</p><p></p><p>The Quest for Origin(al)s</p><p></p><p>Tales of the Vanishing Subject</p><p></p><p>The Romance of Species Cosmopolitanism</p><p></p><p>Precarious Natureculture in the Age of the Genome</p><p></p><p>Genomic Histories and Cultural Genomics</p><p></p><p>The Future Genomics</p><p>Bibliography [4680]</p>