Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Series editor’s preface ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Contributors xiii
6. List of figures xvii
7. Introduction 1
8. Part I. Common(ing) problems
9. Chapter 1. Risk and responsibility in Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows 16
10. Chapter 2. An escape artist 33
11. Part II. Ruptured spaces
12. Chapter 3. A work, or a walk, in progress 56
13. Chapter 4. Drawing life in limbo 75
14. Part III. Fractured histories
15. Chapter 5. Narrating entanglements of British Colonialism and German National Socialism 100
16. Chapter 6. Performing the archive 119
17. Part IV. Disrupted ecologies
18. Chapter 7. Planetary crisis and the sympoietics of the pest 140
19. Chapter 8. ‘Dangerous, Ugly Air’ 159
20. Part V. Healing and regeneration
21. Chapter 9. Mothering the anthropocene 182
22. Chapter 10. Discovering the “ in-common ” in Magnet Theatre’s Every Year, Every Day, I Am Walking 204
23. Afterword 226
24. Index 231