Imperial Debris : On Ruins and Ruination

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stoler, Ann Laura.

Contributor:

Stoler, Ann Laura, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism--Social aspects.

Postcolonialism.

Local Subjects:

Postcolonialism--Social aspects.

Postcolonialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Imperial Debris redirects scholarly focus away from ruins as evidence of the past to ""ruination"" as the processes through which imperial power occupies the environment, and bodies and minds, in the present.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction: "The Rot Remains": From Ruins to Ruination - Ann Laura Stoler; Part I. Decompositions of Matter and Mind; 1. An Acoustic Register: Rape and Repetition in Congo - Nancy Rose Hunt; 2. The Coolie: An Unfinished Epic - E. Valentine Daniel; 3. Empire's Ruins: Detroit to the Amazon - Greg Grandin; Part II . Living in Ruins: Degradations and Regenerations; 4. Detritus in Durban: Polluted Environs and the Biopolitics of Refusal - Sharad Chari; 5. Ruins, Redemption, and Brazil's Imperial Exception - John Collins

6. When a Demolished House Becomes a Public Square - Ariella AzoulayPart III. Anticipating the Imperial Future; 7. The Void: Invisible Ruins on the Edges of Empire - Gastón Gordillo; 8. Engineering the Future as Nuclear Ruin - Joseph Masco; 9. The Future in Ruins - Vyjayanthi Rao; Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)

ISBN:

9780822395850

0822395851

OCLC:

869641456