Planetary precarity and the pandemic

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Notes

1. The founding of a platform for discussing ideas about precarity occurred during the conference “The Cultures of New India”, hosted at Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University (2017) in Lucknow. The network was established in 2018 at the international conference “Precarity, Populism and Post-Truth Politics” (University of Cordoba, Spain) and consolidated at the conferences,  “Challenging Precarity” (AURO University, Gujarat) in 2019 and “Precarious Lives, Uncertain Futures” (Tor Vergata University, Rome) in 2020.

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Janet M. Wilson

Janet M. Wilson is professor of English and postcolonial studies at the University of Northampton, UK and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Her research focuses on the white settler cultures of Australasia and the writings of their postcolonial diasporas. She has also published on topics such as refugee writing, the global novel, religious fundamentalism, and Katherine Mansfield. She recently coedited the Routledge Diaspora Studies Reader (2017).

Om Prakash Dwivedi

Om Prakash Dwivedi is associate professor of English and head of the School of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at AURO University, Surat. His research interests focus on Indian writing in English, postcolonial theory and cultural studies. He is the author (with Lisa Lau) of Re-Orientalism and Indian Writing in English (2014) and (with V.G. Julie Rajan) of Human Rights and Postcolonial India (2016). Forthcoming is a book on Critical Traditions in India (co-edited with the late Professor Avadhesh Kumar Singh).

Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández

Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández is a senior lecturer in the Department of English and German at the University of Córdoba, Spain, and has spent research periods at Stanford University and Wheaton College (US) and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). She focuses on the study of literature in English and other cultural forms from postcolonial and ecocritical perspectives, and issues of precarity and other intersecting areas (e.g. inequality, disability, or identity). She is currently co-editing the volume Modern Ecopoetry: Reading the Palimpsest of the More-Than-Human World.