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Beyond Safety - Risk, Cosmopolitanism, and Neoliberal Contemporary Life (Hardcover)
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Beyond Safety - Risk, Cosmopolitanism, and Neoliberal Contemporary Life (Hardcover)
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Beyond Safety argues that concerns about the ethical impossibility
of individual safety in the face of risks with increasingly obvious
global consequences alters representations of neoliberal
contemporary life. As the climate crises in the Caribbean and
Australia, ongoing European refugee and American border crises,
and, most recently, anxieties about Coronavirus illustrate,
contemporary life is characterized by global connections that
produce and reflect precarious outcomes and dangers. The ability to
ignore risk or shift it to others underscores the fact that it is
mitigable for particular segments of society while inescapable for
others. Emily Johansen investigates depictions of global danger and
safety in contemporary transnational fictional and popular
texts-those characterized by a narrative or representational
emphasis on border crossing and global interdependences. She
demonstrates how these texts use risk to question and re-imagine
the norms and practices of contemporary global citizenship. Beyond
Safety thus brings together three of the central keywords of
contemporary literary criticism of the last ten years
(cosmopolitanism, precarity, neoliberalism) and shows how their
intersection allows for a fuller conception of contemporary life
and imagines a new global future.
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