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Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene

A Postcolonial Critique

By: Gaia Giuliani

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Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene

A Postcolonial Critique

By: Gaia Giuliani

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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Race, Nation and Gender in Modern Italy

Intersectional Representations in Visual Culture

By: Gaia Giuliani

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Race, Nation and Gender in Modern Italy

Intersectional Representations in Visual Culture

By: Gaia Giuliani

Finalist for the 2019 Edinburgh Gadda Prize This book explores intersectional constructions of race and whiteness in modern and contemporary Italy. It contributes to transnational and interdisciplinary reflections on these issues through an analysis of political debates and social practices, focusing in particular on visual materials from the unification of Italy (1861) to the present day. Giuliani draws attention to rearticulations of the transnationally constructed Italian ‘colonial archive’ in Italian racialised identity-politics and cultural racisms across processes of nation building, emigration, colonial expansion, and the construction of the first post-fascist Italian society. The author considers the ‘figures of race’ peopling the Italian colonial archive as composing past and present ideas and representations of (white) Italianness and racialised/gendered Otherness. Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including Italian studies, political philosophy, sociology, history, visual and cultural studies, race and whiteness studies and gender studies, will find this book of interest.

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Race, Nation and Gender in Modern Italy

Intersectional Representations in Visual Culture

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Intersectional Representations in Visual Culture

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Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene

A Postcolonial Critique

By: Gaia Giuliani

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A Postcolonial Critique

By: Gaia Giuliani

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Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene

Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene

Race, Nation and Gender in Modern Italy

Race, Nation and Gender in Modern Italy

Race, Nation and Gender in Modern Italy

Race, Nation and Gender in Modern Italy

Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene

Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene

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