Rebecca S Oh
Biographic Data
| ID | 668789 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca S Oh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca S |
| FAMILY NAME | Oh |
| SIGNATURE | OH R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9863-8234 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Apocalyptic Realism
This article reads Idrissou Mora-Kpai’s documentary Arlit, deuxième Paris and Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner’s poem “Anointed” as examples of apocalyptic realism. This genre historicizes apocalypse and tracks the way futurelessness has been imposed selectively across the Global South. In the arid north of Niger, France’s uranium extraction has created a radioactive desert and turned postcolonial Niger into a continuing resource colony for France. In the P…
The Claims of Bodies
This essay explores political relations and practices of claim-making between Indian citizens and the state in the aftermath of the Bhopal gas explosion of 2–3 December 1984. While not discounting the transnational dimensions of environmental problems across the Global South, nor postcolonial fatigue with the nation-state, it argues survivors remain invested in the state for redress and continue to engage with it through forms of claim-making tha…
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The Claims of Bodies
This essay explores political relations and practices of claim-making between Indian citizens and the state in the aftermath of the Bhopal gas explosion of 2–3 December 1984. While not discounting the transnational dimensions of environmental problems across the Global South, nor postcolonial fatigue with the nation-state, it argues survivors remain invested in the state for redress and continue to engage with it through forms of claim-making tha…
Apocalyptic Realism
This article reads Idrissou Mora-Kpai’s documentary Arlit, deuxième Paris and Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner’s poem “Anointed” as examples of apocalyptic realism. This genre historicizes apocalypse and tracks the way futurelessness has been imposed selectively across the Global South. In the arid north of Niger, France’s uranium extraction has created a radioactive desert and turned postcolonial Niger into a continuing resource colony for France. In the P…
Arid (1 work) · Body politic (1 work) · Citizenship (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (1 work) · Environmental ethics (1 work) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Nuclear weapon (1 work) · Pessimism (1 work)