PART 1 Media, Performance, Genres1 Poverty, (Neo)orientalism and the Cinematic Re-presentation of 'Dark India'2 "Performing with What Little They Have"3 Overcoming the 'Crisis of Nonrelation' through Formal InnovationPART 2 Intersectional Approaches4 Precarious Lives in Tony Birch's Common People (2017)5 Diasporic Female Precarity and Agency in Sunjeev Sahota's The Year of the Runaways6 Narrating the 'Black Male Underclass'7 Breaking the Cycle of HeathcliffPART 3 (Publication) Politics and Precarity8 Voices of Ugandan Women Writers9 Poverty, Precarity and the Ethics of Representing AfricaPART 4 Environmental Precarity10 Sovereignty at the Margins11 Plantation and PlanetPART 5 Representing Refugees and Immigrants12 Narrative Zones of Refuge in The Lost Boy by Aher Arop Bol and A Man of Good Hope by Jonny Steinberg13 "Bringing the Wisdom of Wall Street to Limbe"14 The Scenario of (Im-)Migrants as Scroungers and/or Parasites in British Media Discourses15 Narrating Precarious Lives Refugee Tales, African Titanics, and the Year of the RunawaysIndex