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 scop...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Stoler, Ann Laura
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Duke University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Postkolonialismus
Postcolonialism > Social aspects.
Postcolonialism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
postcolonialism.
Postcolonialisme > Aspect social.
Postcolonialisme.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. "The rot remains": from ruins to ruination / Ann Laura Stoler
  • Part I. Decompositions of matter and mind
  • An acoustic register: rape and repetition in Congo / Nancy Hunt
  • The coolie: an unfinished epic / E. Valentine Daniel
  • Empire's ruins: Detroit to the Amazon / Greg Grandin
  • Part II. Living in ruins: degradations and regenerations
  • Detritus in Durban: polluted environs and the biopolitics of refusal / Sharad Chari
  • Ruins, redemption and Brazil's imperial exception / John Collins
  • When a demolished house becomes a public square / Ariella Azoulay
  • Part III. Anticipating the imperial future
  • The void: invisible ruins on the edges of empire / Gastón Gordillo
  • Engineering the future as nuclear ruin / Joseph Masco
  • The future in ruins / Vyjayanthi Rao.

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