Imperial Debris

On Ruins and Ruination
Herausgeber: Stoler, Ann Laura

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780822353485
• ISBN-10: 0822353482
• Artikelnr.: 36264840

Autorenporträt

Ann Laura Stoler, ed.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Introduction. "The Rot Remains": From Ruins to Ruination / Ann Laura Stoler
1
Part I. Decompositions of Matter and Mind
1. An Acoustic Register: Rape and Repetition in Congo / Nancy Rose Hunt 39
2. The Coolie: An Unfinished Epic / E. Valentine Daniel 67
3. Empire's Ruin: Detroit to the Amazon / Greg Grandin 115
Part II. Living in Ruins: Degradations and Regenerations
4. Detritus in Durban: Polluted Environs and the Biopolitics of Refusal /
Sharad Chari 131
5. Ruins, Redemption, and Brazil's Imperial Exception / John Collins 162
6. When a Demolished House Becomes a Public Square / Ariella Azoulay 194
Part III. Anticipating the Imperial Future
7. The Void: Invisible Ruins on the Edges of Empire / Gastón Gordillo 227
8. Engineering the Future as Nuclear Ruin / Joseph Masco 252
9. The Future in Ruins / Vyjayanthi Rao 287
Bibliography 323
Contributors 355
Index 357