Foreword / Patrick Murphy
Introduction / Robert Bell and Robert Ficociello

Part I: Mediation
Chapter 1: “For $19.99, Terror at the Finish Line Can Be Yours!”: Creating Individual Identity Through Collective Tragedy in the Boston Marathon Bombings / Amy Lantinga
Chapter 2: Re-Telling Fukushima, Re-Shaping Citizenship: Women Netizens in Japan / Nicole L. Freiner
Chapter 3: The Locals do it better? The Strange Victory of Occupy Sandy / Peer Illner
Chapter 4: “Monsters in Human Form:” Representations of Looting in American Disaster Narratives / Charles Byler
Chapter 5: The Deepwater Horizon Disaster: Communicating Environmental Disaster in the Age of Technology / Kristen Chamberlain and Marceleen Mosher
Chapter 6: “The storm of the century”: Typhoon Yolanda, the Event, and the Project of U.S. Empire in the Philippines / Danielle Crawford

Part II: Remediation
Chapter 7: “The Missing Element is the Human Element”: Ontological Difference and the World-Ecological Crisis of the Capitalocene / Kirk Boyle
Chapter 8: Challenging Developmentalist Narratives: Helon Habila’s Oil on Water as a Representation of the Extractivist Exploitation in the Niger Delta Region / Minna Niemi
Chapter 9: A Random Harvest: The Leftovers, Debt, and the “strange non-death” of Neoliberalism / Liane Tanguay
Chapter 10: Appropriating the Zombie Apocalypse: The Politics of Disaster / Erik Trump
Chapter 11: The Politics of Aesthetics in Beasts of the Southern Wild: Mapping the Ethical Limits of Filmic Narratives in the Wake of Epochal Disaster Cycles / Stephanie Hankinson
Chapter 12: Neohumanism in the Anthropocene: Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive / Hannah Stark

Robert Bell is the director of learning resources and writing across the curriculum at Loyola University New Orleans. Robert Ficociello is an assistant professor of writing at Holy Family University.