Slow disturbance : infrastructural mediation on the settler colonial resource frontier / Rafico Ruiz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruiz, Rafico, 1981- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Sign, storage, transmission

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fisheries--Newfoundland and Labrador--History--19th century.

Fisheries.

Fisheries--Newfoundland and Labrador--History--20th century.

Colonists--Newfoundland and Labrador--History--19th century.

Colonists.

Colonists--Newfoundland and Labrador--History--20th century.

Economic conditions.

History.

Newfoundland and Labrador--Economic conditions.

Newfoundland and Labrador.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 222 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

"Rafico Ruiz uses the Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, to theorize how settler colonialism establishes itself through the building, maintenance, and mediation of site-specific infrastructure."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

First Fish, then Mediation

The Way It Was

The Plant

Slow Disturbance "5 Canada"

Credit and Common Sense

The Way It Was, St. Anthony,

Meta Incognita

Slow Disturbance "Channel 12"

The Promise of Extraction

The Way It Was, St. Anthony, 1997

Slow Disturbance "Samsung, High Speed Mechanism".

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Ruiz, Rafico, 1981- Slow disturbance.

ISBN:

9781478012139

1478012137

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.