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This book looks at Margaret Atwood¿s use of food motifs in speculative fiction. Focusing on six novels ¿ The Handmaid¿s Tale and The Testaments, the Maddaddam trilogy, and The Heart Goes Last ¿ Katarina Labudova explores the environmental, ecological, and cultural questions at play and the possible future scenarios which emerge for humanity¿s survival in apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic conditions. Labudova argues that food has special relevance in these novels and that characters¿ hunger, limited food choices, culinary creativity and eating rituals are central to Atwood¿s depictions of hostile environments. She also links food to hierarchy, dominance and oppression in Atwood¿s novels, and foregrounds the problem of hunger, both psychological or physical, caused by pollution and loss of contact with the natural and authentic. The book shows how Atwood¿s writing draws from a range of genres, including apocalyptic fiction, science fiction, speculative fiction,dystopia, utopia, fairy tale, myth, and thriller ¿ and how food is an important, highly versatile motif linking these intertextual threads.

This is the first book to examine the growth and phenomenon of a securitized and criminalized compliance society which relies increasingly on intelligence-led and predictive technologies to control future risks, crimes, and security threats. It articulates the emergence of a ¿compliance-industrial complex¿ that synthesizes regulatory capitalism and surveillance capitalism to impose new regimes of power and control, as well as new forms of subjectivity subservient to the ¿operating system¿ of a pre-crime society. Looking at compliance beyond frameworks of business management, corporate governance, law, and accounting, it looks as it as a social phenomenon, instrumental in the pluralization and privatization of policing, where the private intelligence, private security, and big tech companies are being concentrated at the very core of compliance, and hence, governance of the social. The critical book draws on transversal, rather than interdisciplinary, approaches and integratesdisparate perspectives, inspired by works in critical criminology, critical algorithm studies, critical management studies, as well as social anthropology and philosophy.