Pramod K. Nayar teaches at the Dept. of English, the University of Hyderabad, India. Among his most recent books are Brand Postcolonial: 'Third World' Texts and the Global (de Gruyter 2018), The Extreme in Contemporary Culture (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017), Human Rights and Literature (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016), and The Indian Graphic Novel (Routledge 2016).

• Chapter 1: Ecoprecarity: An Introduction [6280]Chapter 2: Biosecurity and Invasion in the ‘Outbreak Narrative’ [11883]Hosts, Contagions and the Invasion/Outbreak NarrativeFrames of Apprehension, Precarity and their Necrospective HistoryThe ‘Host’ BodyThe Grotesque BodyThe Human, the Clone and the OrgansChapter 3: Dystopias and the ‘Ecological Uncanny’ [21630] Ecological Thought and the Dystopian Imagination The Antiquarian Uncanny and EcoprecarityThe Architectural UncannySpectral LandscapesWaste and the Ecological UncannyWaste and the Decadent SublimeThe Decadent Sublime and the UncannyEcodystopias and their Reproductive UncannyPathological Reproduction and Uncanny KinshipTeratogenesis and Species ReproductionChapter 4 The Wild and Its Feral Biopolitics [14150]The Idea of Wilderness in the Age of Precarity Carnal Geographies‘Nature Red in Tooth and Claw’Carnal Geography as Animal HeterotopiaFeral BiopoliticsThe Feral and the Idea of Human CivilizationPostnatural Wilderness and the FeralFeral ChildhoodsChapter 5: Live Capital, Bioeconomies and Endangered Belonging [19500]The Precarious Bodies of BiocapitalismPossession and LabourThe Judicialization of Life itselfGenetic Citizenship and Precarious BelongingCommunity, Genetic Ancestry and BelongingThe Quest for Origin(al)sTales of the Vanishing SubjectThe Romance of Species CosmopolitanismPrecarious Natureculture in the Age of the GenomeGenomic Histories and Cultural GenomicsThe Future GenomicsBibliography [4680]

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