Beyond Safety: Risk, Cosmopolitanism, and Neoliberal Contemporary Life

Beyond Safety argues that concerns about the ethical impossibility of individual safety in the face of risks...
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Author: Emily Johansen
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Beyond Safety: Risk, Cosmopolitanism, and Neoliberal Contemporary Life by Johansen, Emily

Beyond Safety: Risk, Cosmopolitanism, and Neoliberal Contemporary Life

CHF 254.62

Beyond Safety: Risk, Cosmopolitanism, and Neoliberal Contemporary Life

CHF 254.62
Author: Emily Johansen
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.

Author: Emily Johansen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 10/07/2021
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781501377013

About the Author
Emily Johansen is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University, USA. She is the author of Cosmopolitanism and Place: Spatial Forms in Contemporary Anglophone Literature (2014) and co-editor, with Alissa G. Karl, of Neoliberalism and the Novel (2018). She has published articles in Ariel, Contemporary Literature, and Textual Practice

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