Visualizing Loss in Latin America: Biopolitics, Waste, and the Urban Environment (Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment)

Preface
	References
Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
	1 The Environment in (Eco)Critical Perspective
	2 Ecocriticism: Then and Now
	3 Ecocriticism and Latin America
	4 Visualizing Loss in Latin America
	References
Chapter 2: Destruction: The Garbage Dump as a Global Biocritical Trope
	1 Unfathomable Fluidity: Toward a Condition of “Exception”
	2 Collateral Residues of Modernity’s Production, Consumption, and Disposal
	3 Residual Humans (or Human Ruins)
	4 Visual Tales of Indistinctness
	5 Intermission: Verbitsky
	6 Narratives of Bioenvironmental Destruction
	7 Contemporary Slums as a Reconfiguration of the Dump (Other, New Conditions of “Exception”)
	8 Out of Sight, Out of Mind
	References
Chapter 3: Sustainability: Waste and Its Social, Cultural, and Aesthetic Re-significations
	1 From Destruction to Environmental Conservation: The Enacted Object of Waste
	2 The “Subversive” Condition of Waste?
	3 Waste from the Global City
	4 Cartoneros
	5 Pepenadores
	6 Catadores
	7 Diving in Havana: Dream or Nightmare?
	8 Intermission II: Berni
	9 From the Street to the (Art) Workshop and Back Again
	10 By Way of Conclusion: A Bio/Ecocritical Reading
	References
Chapter 4: Preservation: Nature and Urbanism from Utopia to Dystopia
	1 Utopian Imaginaries and Urban Territories
	2 Green Utopias, Ecological Utopias
	3 Green Utopias in Urban Venues
	4 Science and Nature in Cities
	5 Nature (Re)Appropriated: A Utopian Effort for Private Societies in the Twenty-First Century
	6 Dystopia for all and Futurist Ecocide in the Latin American City of the Twenty-First Century
	7 Coda
	References
Chapter 5: Bioecocriticism: A New Critical Episteme
	References
Index