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Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times
Ann Laura Stoler
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Description for Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times
Paperback. In Duress Ann Laura Stoler traces how imperial formations and colonialism's presence shape current inequities around the globe by examining Israel's colonial practices, the United State's imperial practices, the recent rise of the French right wing, and affect's importance to governance. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 448 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 29. Weight in Grams: 652.
How do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers, as legacies of a dead past rather than as active and violating forces in the world today? With precision and clarity, Ann Laura Stoler argues that recognizing colonial presence may have as much to do with how the connections between colonial histories and the present are expected to look as it does with how they are expected to be. In Duress, Stoler considers what methodological renovations might serve to write histories that ... Read more
How do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers, as legacies of a dead past rather than as active and violating forces in the world today? With precision and clarity, Ann Laura Stoler argues that recognizing colonial presence may have as much to do with how the connections between colonial histories and the present are expected to look as it does with how they are expected to be. In Duress, Stoler considers what methodological renovations might serve to write histories that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
A John Hope Franklin Center Book
Condition
New
Weight
652g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822362678
SKU
V9780822362678
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About Ann Laura Stoler
Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research and the author and editor of many books, including Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination and Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things, both also published by Duke University Press. ... Read more
Reviews for Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times
A tour de force. Stoler's encyclopedic knowledge of the literature is impressive and the book might be used as a reference for those hoping to move the needle in postcolonial studies-to advance the agenda of the subfield . . . Stoler has ably demonstrated that Foucault's work is relevant to locales beyond France. And yet, I am left to ... Read more