Imperial Debris : On Ruins and Ruination /

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Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occupies the present. Ann Laura Stoler's introduction is a manifesto, a compelling call for postcolonial studies to expand its analytical scope to a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Azoulay, Ariella (Contribuidor), Chari, Sharad (Contribuidor), Collins, John (Contribuidor), Daniel, E. Valentine (Contribuidor), Gordillo, Gastón (Contribuidor), Grandin, Greg (Contribuidor), Hunt, Nancy Rose (Contribuidor), Masco, Joseph (Contribuidor), Rao, Vyjayanthi (Contribuidor), Stoler, Ann Laura (Contribuidor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2013]
Temas:
Postcolonialism > Social aspects.
Postcolonialism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction "The Rot Remains": From Ruins to Ruination
  • Part I. Decompositions of Matter and Mind
  • 1. An Acoustic Register: Rape and Repetition in Congo
  • 2. The Coolie: An Unfinished Epic
  • 3. Empire's Ruins: Detroit to the Amazon
  • Part II. Living in Ruins: Degradations and Regenerations
  • 4. Detritus in Durban: Polluted Environs and the Biopolitics of Refusal
  • 5. Ruins, Redemption, and Brazil's Imperial Exception
  • 6. When a Demolished House Becomes a Public Square
  • Part III. Anticipating the Imperial Future
  • 7. The Void: Invisible Ruins on the Edges of Empire
  • 8. Engineering the Future as Nuclear Ruin
  • 9. The Future in Ruins
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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