1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910143939303321

Titolo

Amazoniana

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kiel : , : Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, , -2007

Soggetti

Limnology - Amazon River Valley

Freshwater biology - Amazon River Valley

Freshwater biology

Limnology

Limnologie

Ecologie

Periodicals.

Amazon River Valley

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910796654203321

Autore

Nayar Pramod K.

Titolo

Bhopal's ecological gothic : disaster, precarity, and the biopolitical uncanny / / Pramod K. Nayar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-4985-4046-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 pages)

Collana

Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Disciplina

809.9336

Soggetti

Ecocriticism - India - Bhopal

India Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Introduction: Bhopal, disaster, precarity -- ; 1 The prefiguration of disaster -- ; 2 The event of disaster -- ; 3 Bhopal's biopolitical uncanny I: the nature of haunting -- ; 4 Bhopal's biopolitical uncanny II: the haunting of nature -- ; 5 Bhopal's precarity: toxic history and thanatopolitics in the postcolony -- ; Conclusion: "Burial of an unknown child" as icon.

Sommario/riassunto

Studies the cultural texts--fiction, protest effigies, photographs, films, reportage, eyewitness accounts, campaign posters and reports--produced around the world's worst industrial disaster: the Bhopal tragedy of 1984. It makes a case for an ecological perspective, wherein the city, its landscape and its people are Gothicized. After presenting the history of the disaster in terms of negligence, the book examines the coverage of the events as well as accounts by eyewitnesses and survivors, and the remnants, in various forms, of the disaster - the haunting - within human bodies and nature. Finally,Bhopal's Ecological Gothic describes the industrial ruins and the mobilization of protests against Union Carbide. -- Back cover.