Stoler Imperial Debris

On Ruins and Ruination
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9585-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stoler, Ann Laura

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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 of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things and Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History are both also published by Duke University Press.