Book Review: Sunrise on the Reaping
This is a book review I wrote. The Hunger Games has been a part of my life for 7 years. But now I possess exceptional tools to read it well. I have been studying Risk Analysis for the past year as part of my Master's, and The Hunger Games is a great example of how Risk can be understood in our world and in the dystopian universe that Collins creates. Happy Reading :) ~ “May the odds be ever in your favour.” Set in a dystopian future, Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins depicts systemic violence in a world of authoritarian governments, controlled media narratives, and propaganda that contribute to our understanding of risk by reframing it as a form of resistance to the oppressive state. The novel positions the body as a site through which risk is enacted, transformed, and revolutionized. Risk, however, is not confined to dystopia. It is a structural byproduct of our capitalist socio-political reality, and we are its subjects. “Risk is not something to anticipate but to endu...
