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Biopolitics and Environmental Crises: An Ecomarxist Study of The 786 Cybercafé
Author Name :
TAYYIBA MARYAM
Publisher :
Bridge Center
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Abstract :
This research paper attempts to examine the novel The 786 Cybercafé (2004) by Bina Shah from ecomarxist and biopolitical perspectives. It outlines the relationship between ecocriticism, marxism and biopolitics. Ecocriticism, a new perspective in literary theories assimilates to Marxist literary and cultural criticism. Through the method of textual analysis this paper investigates multiple socioeconomic, biopolitical conditions and ecological crises of Karachi impacting on the life of individuals by using Marxist point of view as economic lens. Biopolitics contains a number of theories with which new forms and dogmas of communities are investigated in an intricate set up showing the links between life and its governance. Moreover, this paper documents biopolitical competence suggesting an association between the text and the challenging society. It also endeavors to manifest governing apparatuses and social life according to biopolitical parameters. My reading of Bina Shah’s The 786 Cybercafé (2004) suggests that core issues of the human world such as troubles created by capitalist society, ecological disasters, economic and political structure are the subject matters of this novel. Furthermore, ecological disasters, economic and political structure of urban city Karachi help to understand and elaborate the current situation of Biopolitics. Environmental crisis can also be called as the present face of politics itself for instance different geopolitical struggles reshape the tracks of power on global scale. In the meantime, it also demonstrates that how the environment plays as a biopolitical component. The key contribution of this paper is to switch attention on the recoding of setting as a mechanism through which the Biopolitical environmentalization of actual spaces might pass into the literary dimension. It serves as a symbiotic association between man and nature constituting ecological consciousness in accordance with the besmirched image of human life undoubtedly that is the result of poor physical infrastructure.
Keywords :
Biopolitics, Ecological Crises, Economic Instabilities, Unemployment, Urban City.
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