Biopolitical disaster / edited by Jennifer L. Lawrence and Sarah Marie Wiebe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Manufacturing biopolitical disaster: instrumental (ir)rationality and the Deepwater Horizon disaster / Jennifer L. Lawrence -- Disaster biopolitics and the crisis economy / Kevin Grove -- Lives as half-life: the nuclear condition and biopolitical disaster / Timothy W. Luke -- Even natural disasters are unlikely to slow us down ... / Andy Scerri and Nader Sobhani -- The governmentality of disaster resilience / Peter Rogers -- Catastrophe and catastrophic thought / Garnet Kindervater -- Politics of re-radicalizing the deracinated as invasive species: human displacement, environmental disasters of state enclosures, and the irradicability of biodiversity / Mark F.N. Franke -- Emergency life and indigenous resistance: seeing biopolitical disaster through the prism of political ecology / Sarah Marie Wiebe -- Marginally managed: "Letting die" and fighting back in the oil sands / Emily Ray -- "Of course they count, but not right now": regulating precarity in Lee Maracle's Ravensong and Celia's Song -- Life at all costs: the biopolitics of chemotherapy in contemporary television and film / Teena Gabrielson -- The great turning / Christine Frye -- The underestimated power effects of the discourses and practices of the food justice movement / Eric Darier -- Interrogating the neoliberal biopolitics of the sustainable development-resilience nexus / Julian Reid -- The aesthetics of triage: towards life beyond survival / Geoffrey Whitehall -- End piece: dealing with disastrous life / Francois Debrix.