Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene: A Postcolonial Critique, 1st Edition eBook

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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.

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Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene: A Postcolonial Critique 1st Edition is written by Gaia Giuliani and published by Routledge. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene are 9781351064842, 1351064843 and the print ISBNs are 9781138479777, 1138479772. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9780367612290, 9781351064866, 9781351064859, 9781351064835.