Foreword
Warren Magnusson
Introduction
Jennifer Lawrence and Sarah Marie Wiebe
Part I - Commodifying Crisis
Chapter 1: "Manufacturing Biopolitical Disaster: Instrumental (Ir)Rationality and Deepwater Horizon"
Jennifer L. Lawrence
Chapter 2: "Disaster Biopolitics and the Crisis Economy"
Kevin Grove
Chapter 3: "Life as Half Lives: The Nuclear Condition and Biopolitical Disaster"
Timothy W. Luke
Chapter 4: "Even Natural Disasters Are Unlikely to Slow Us Down...": Corporate Social & Environmental Responsibility as Well-Crafted Political Judgment"
Andy Scerri and Nader Sobhani
Part II - Governmentalities of Disaster
Chapter 5: "The Governmentality of Disaster Resilience"
Peter Rogers
Chapter 6: "Catastrophe and Catastrophic Thought"
Garnet Kindervater
Chapter 7: "Politics of re-radicalising the Deracinated as Invasive Species: Human Displacement, Environmental Disasters of State Enclosures and the Irradicability of Biodiversity"
Mark F.N. Franke
Part III - Affected Bodies
Chapter 8: "Emergency Life and Indigenous Resistance: Seeing Biopolitical Disaster through a Prismatic lens"
Sarah Marie Wiebe
Chapter 9: "Marginally Managed: ‘Letting Die’ and Fighting Back in the Oil Sands
Emily Ray
Chapter 10: "Of Course They Count, But Not Right Now:" Regulating Precarity In Lee Maracle’s Ravensong and Celia’s Song
Dallas Hunt
Chapter 11: "Life at All Costs: The Biopolitics of Chemotherapy in Contemporary Telivision and Film"
Teena Gabrielson
Part IV - Environmental Aesthetics and Resistance
Chapter 12: "The Great Turning"
Christine Fry
Chapter 13: "The Underestimated Power Effects of the Discourses and Practices of the Food Justice Movement"
Eric Darier
Chapter 14: "Interrogating the Disastrous Biopolitics of the Sustainable Development-Resilience Nexus"
Julian Reid
Chapter 15: "The Aesthetics of Triage: Towards Life Beyond Survival"
Geoffrey Whitehall
End Piece: "Dealing with Disastrous Life" .
Francois Debrix
Biography
Jennifer L. Lawrence is Postdoctoral Research Associate at The Global Forum on Urban and Regional Resilience, Virginia Tech, USA.
Sarah Marie Wiebe is Assistant Professor of Environmental Sustainability, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.
