Imperial Debris – On Ruins and Ruination
Autor Ann Laura Stoleren Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mai 2013
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780822353614
ISBN-10: 082235361X
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 29 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
ISBN-10: 082235361X
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 29 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Cuprins
Preface; 1. Introduction: The Rot Remains: From Ruins to Ruination / Ann Laura StolerPart I: Decompositions of Matter and Mind 2. An Acoustic Register: Tenacious Images, Congolese Scenes Of Rape, and Repetition / Nancy Hunt; 3. The Coolie: An Unfinished Epic / E. Valentine Daniel; 4. Empires Ruins: Detroit to the Amazon / Greg GrandinPart II: Living in Ruins: Degradations and Regenerations 5. Detritus in Durban: Polluted Environs and the Biopolitics of Refusal / Sharad Chari; 6. Ruins, Redemption and Brazils Imperial Exception / John Collins; 7. When a Demolished House Becomes a Public Square / Ariella Azoulay Part III: Anticipating the Imperial Future 8. The Void: Invisible Ruins on the Edges of Empire / Gastón Gordillo; 9. Engineering the Future as Nuclear Ruin / Joseph Masco; 10. The Future in Ruins/ Vyjayanthi RaoBibliography; Contributors; Index
Recenzii
"Imperial Debris questions some of our deepest assumptions about violence and its residues. This astute, wide-ranging, and ambitious volume refocuses our attention on the incremental processes of ruination that are typically overlooked in favor of official ruins. The result is a major intervention in postcolonial and visual studies."Rob Nixon,author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor"Barely controlled rage is never far off stage as we are drawn into the continuing drama of empire's ruinsscarred landscapes, polluted places, shattered peoples, and the rot that remains. From sadistic torture and ruination of bodies and souls in the (Belgian) Congo to the lives of Sri Lankan 'coolie' estate workers analyzed in epic poetry, from the States attempt to patrimonialize impoverished citizens in contemporary Bahia to Israeli destruction of Palestinian homes and spirits in Gaza, this book forces a new, critical gaze on the ways that colonialism lives on in the present."Richard Price, author of The Convict and the Colonel, Travels with Tooy, and Rainforest Warriors
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Descriere
Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occupies the present.