This book will appeal to a diverse, and international market. The volume will be suitable for undergraduate classes in a range of disciplines but also as a graduate reference guide.

Contents:
Abstract
Author Biographies
List of Figures
Introduction - Scott Hamilton and Conor Heffernan
I. Zombified Bodies
1. Zombies, Deviance, and the Right to Posthuman Life - Poppy Wilde (Birmingham City University)
2. The Apocalypse Workout: Health, Identity and Zombies - Conor Heffernan (University of Texas at Austin)
3. Zombie Orgies and the Fear of the Outer Limits: Examining the Relationship between Fear, Pornography and Zombies - Caroline West (Dublin City University)
4. Aloha-oe: Hello, Goodbye to Love and Family in Sang-ho Yeon's Train to Busan - Harvey O'Brien (University College Dublin)
II. Critical Environments
5. The Stalking Dead: Ireland's Ambiguous Revenants and the Case for a Folk-Zombie Revival - Jack Fennell (University of Limerick)
6. M.R. Carey's The Boy on the Bridge: Ethics and the Apocalypse - Scott Eric Hamilton (University College Dublin)
7. Zombie Colony: The Heteronomy of the Greek State & The Datura of Cultural Capital - Konstantinos Kerasovitis (University of Wolverhampton)
8. Last Ones Left Alive: Zombies and Post-Politics - Deirdre Flynn (University College Dublin)
III. Undead Cultures
9. Beware the Zuvembies: Comics, Censorship, and the Ubiquity of Not-Quite-Zombies - Chera Kee (Wayne State University)
10. Distortions of the Video Dead: The Degradation of Reality in the Era of Zombie VHS - Peter Wright (The University of Sydney)
11. 'Violence is Italian art': Art and Adaptation in Lucio Fulci's 'Gates of Hell' Trilogy - Miranda Corcoran (University College Cork)
12. Surviving the Shambling Signifieds: Zombies, Language, and Chaos - Andrew Ferguson (University of Maryland)
Bibliography
Index

• Unlike previous works, Theorising the Contemporary Zombie presents an interdisciplinary understanding of 'zombiism'. A range of book-length studies, such as Zombies in the Academy (2011), and ...But if a Zombie Apocalypse Did Occur (2015) for example, have contributed to a greater understanding of the zombie figure but have confined their interest to a single event (a hypothetical zombie apocalypse) or a single field (education studies).


• Theorizing Zombiism draws from an international range of contributors spanning several disciplines, all of whom are interested in the zombie as an interdisciplinary framework. This broad church of interests from different countries suggests that the book will appeal to a diverse market.


• This collection goes one step further than other works and builds a broader zombie framework for future scholars.


• This volume covers a broad scope, providing new insights into zombies and gender, sexuality, health and fitness, the economy, comic books, Transhumanism, and the environment