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This volume fosters a re-imagination of the planet where it is seen not only as a resource, but also as an entity that must not be excluded from the political imperative of care and kinship.
Table des matières
1) Architecture Affects: From Phenomenology to Planetarity 2) In-Between Performances: Worlding, Ethical Consciousness and Affective Responses to Contemporary Choreographies 3) Sound of Resistance: A Study of Climate and Culture through Rap Music 4) Travel, Medical Affect and the Romantic Planetarity 5) Performance Art and 'Affect': Negotiating 'Planetarity' in the context of Global Consumerism and Materiality 6) Feel-ing Poetry: Affective Aesthetics of Instapoetry 7) Child's Play and Survival: Examining Children's Games in the Squid Game 8) The YouTube Reaction Video as a site of Affective Fan Practices 9) 'No one understands the Savagery of this Place': Affect and Sense of a Place in Louise Glück'sA Village Life 10) Composing the [ ] Inhuman 11) Non-Human Visions: From Experimental Cinema to Hollywood 12) Submergence 'Within' and 'Without': Local and Planetary Memories in Arula Ratnakar's 'Submergence' 13) Erotic environmentalism: The Awegasmic Activism of Ecosexuality 14) To Stare or Not to Stare: An Affective Study of Disability through Select Hindi Films 15) Shame and its Lovers: Unstable Affective Transmissions in Garth Greenwell's Fiction 16) The Politics of Pain and Anger: Representing Sexual Trauma in Graphic Narratives
A propos de l'auteur
Simi Malhotra has a cumulative experience of more than twenty-two years of teaching and research guidance at PhD, MPhil, and postgraduate and undergraduate levels. Her latest publications are the co-authored/co-edited books
Ocean as Method: Thinking with the Maritime (2022),
Terrains of Consciousness: Multilogical Perspectives on Globalization (2021),
Food Culture Studies in India: Consumption, Representation and Mediation (2021), and
Inhabiting Cyberspace in India: Theory, Perspectives and Challenges (2021). She is the recipient of several grants and awards, the latest being the 2020 DUO-India Professor Fellowship Award.
Sakshi Dogra currently teaches English literature and language at Gargi College (University of Delhi) as Assistant Professor. She is also a PhD research scholar at the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia. She is broadly interested in affect theory; study of moods and atmospheres; and emotions, feelings, and their function in constituting people and cultures. She has co-edited
Food Culture Studies in India: Consumption, Representation and Mediation (2021) and
Inhabiting Cyberspace in India: Theory, Perspectives and Challenges (2021), both published by Springer Nature. She is also the co-editor of
Imagining Worlds, Mapping Possibilities: Select Science Fiction Stories (2020). She has presented papers at both national and international conferences.
Jubi C. John is a PhD scholar and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. She was the co-chief organizer of the Young Researchers' Conference on 'As a Matter of Affect: Making Sense of Planetarity,' conducted by the Department of English, JMI. Her PhD thesis looks at corporeal subjectivity, body politics, and sexual dynamics in Caribbean Island Women's narratives. Her research interests are in the field of embodiment and desire, popular culture and digital spaces, island studies, and memory studies. Previously, she has delivered lectures at the University of Delhi and Jamia Millia Islamia.
Résumé
This volume fosters a re-imagination of the planet where it is seen not only as a resource, but also as an entity that must not be excluded from the political imperative of care and kinship.
