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Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination
Ann Laura Stoler
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Description for Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination
Paperback. Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occupies the present. Editor(s): Stoler, Ann Laura. Num Pages: 384 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 550.
Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of the past to ruination 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 ... Read more
Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of the past to ruination 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
553g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822353614
SKU
V9780822353614
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About Ann Laura Stoler
Ann Laura Stoler is the Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense and Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule. Her books Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History ... Read more
Reviews for Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination
Critical, theoretically sophisticated, and full of fascinating scholarship. . . . This is a weighty and important volume . . . which will leave its trace in American Studies, postcolonial studies, heritage studies, and the ecological humanities.
Gesa Mackenthun
Amerikastudien/American Studies
This is a book of weight and consequence. . . . Stoler ... Read more
Gesa Mackenthun
Amerikastudien/American Studies
This is a book of weight and consequence. . . . Stoler ... Read more