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Imperial Debris - On Ruins and Ruination (Paperback, New)
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Imperial Debris - On Ruins and Ruination (Paperback, New)
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"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 India, Palestinian children taught to envision and
document ancestral homes razed by the Israeli military, and
survival on the toxic edges of oil refineries and amid the remains
of apartheid in Durban, South Africa. They consider the
significance of Cold War imagery of a United States decimated by
nuclear blast, perceptions of a swath of Argentina's Gran Chaco as
a barbarous void, and the enduring resonance, in contemporary
sexual violence, of atrocities in King Leopold's Congo. Reflecting
on the physical destruction of Sri Lanka, on Detroit as a colonial
metropole in relation to sites of ruination in the Amazon, and on
interactions near a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Brazilian
state of Bahia, the contributors attend to present-day harms in the
occluded, unexpected sites and situations where earlier imperial
formations persist.
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Contributors." Ariella Azoulay, John F. Collins, Sharad Chari, E.
Valentine Daniel, Gaston Gordillo, Greg Grandin, Nancy Rose Hunt,
Joseph Masco, Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao, Ann Laura Stoler
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