Circulations : Modernist Imaginaries of Colonialism and Decolonization in Papua New Guinea.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Handman, Courtney.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Papua New Guinea--Colonial influence.

Papua New Guinea.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2025.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Circulations, Courtney Handman examines the surprising continuities in the ways that modernist communications discourses shaped both colonial and decolonial projects in Papua New Guinea. Often described as a place with too many mountains and too many languages to be modern, Papua New Guinea was seen as a space of circulatory primitivity--where people, things, and talk could not move. Colonial missionaries and administrators, and even anticolonial delegations of the United Nations Trusteeship Council, argued that this circulatory primitivity could be overcome only through the management of communication infrastructures, bureaucratic information flows, and the introduction of English. Innovatively bringing together analyses of radios, airplanes, telepathy, bureaucracy, and lingua francas, Circulations argues for the critical role of communicative networks and communicative imaginaries in political processes of colonialism and decolonization worldwide.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One Infrastructures of Colonial Distance

Part Two Bureaucracies of Decolonial Connection

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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ISBN:

9780520416017

0520416015

OCLC:

1503841328