Bhopal's Ecological Gothic: Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny

By Pramod K. Nayar

The book studies the cultural texts--fiction, protest effigies, photographs, films, reportage, eyewitness accounts, campaign posters and reports--produced around the world's worst industrial disaster: the Bhopal tragedy of 1984. It makes a case for an ecological Gothic, wherein the city, its landscape and its people are Gothicized. After tracing the history of the disaster as a history of negligence, the book proceeds in later chapters to study the coverage of the events themselves by eyewitnesses and survivors, and the remnants, in various forms, of the disaster - the haunting - within human bodies and nature. Finally, it examines the industrial ruins and the mobilization of protests against Union Carbide.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498540457
• ISBN13: 9781498540452
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"