Imperial Debris (eBook, PDF)

On Ruins and Ruination
Redaktion: Ann Laura Stoler, Stoler

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Produktbeschreibung

Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of the past to "e;ruination"e; 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 address the toxic but less perceptible corrosions and violent accruals of colonial aftermaths, as well as their durable traces on the material environment and people's bodies and minds. In their provocative, tightly focused responses to Stoler, the contributors explore subjects as seemingly diverse as villages submerged during the building of a massive dam in southern India, Palestinian children taught to envision and document ancestral homes razed by the Israeli military, and survival on the toxic edges of oil refineries and amid the remains of apartheid in Durban, South Africa. They consider the significance of Cold War imagery of a United States decimated by nuclear blast, perceptions of a swath of Argentina's Gran Chaco as a barbarous void, and the enduring resonance, in contemporary sexual violence, of atrocities in King Leopold's Congo. Reflecting on the physical destruction of Sri Lanka, on Detroit as a colonial metropole in relation to sites of ruination in the Amazon, and on interactions near a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Brazilian state of Bahia, the contributors attend to present-day harms in the occluded, unexpected sites and situations where earlier imperial formations persist.Contributors. Ariella Azoulay, John F. Collins, Sharad Chari, E. Valentine Daniel, Gaston Gordillo, Greg Grandin, Nancy Rose Hunt, Joseph Masco, Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao, Ann Laura Stoler

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822395850
• Artikelnr.: 54787277

Autorenporträt

Ann Laura Stoler, ed.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Introduction. "The Rot Remains": From Ruins to Ruination / Ann Laura Stoler
1
Part I. Decompositions of Matter and Mind
1. An Acoustic Register: Rape and Repetition in Congo / Nancy Rose Hunt 39
2. The Coolie: An Unfinished Epic / E. Valentine Daniel 67
3. Empire's Ruin: Detroit to the Amazon / Greg Grandin 115
Part II. Living in Ruins: Degradations and Regenerations
4. Detritus in Durban: Polluted Environs and the Biopolitics of Refusal /
Sharad Chari 131
5. Ruins, Redemption, and Brazil's Imperial Exception / John Collins 162
6. When a Demolished House Becomes a Public Square / Ariella Azoulay 194
Part III. Anticipating the Imperial Future
7. The Void: Invisible Ruins on the Edges of Empire / Gastón Gordillo 227
8. Engineering the Future as Nuclear Ruin / Joseph Masco 252
9. The Future in Ruins / Vyjayanthi Rao 287
Bibliography 323
Contributors 355
Index 357