In eleven sharp essays, the contributors to Decay attend to the
processes and experiences of symbolic and material decay in a
variety of sociopolitical contexts across the globe. They examine
decay in its myriad manifestations-biological, physical,
organizational, moral, political, personal, and social and in
numerous contexts, including colonialism and imperialism,
governments and the state, racism, the environment, and
infrastructure. The volume's topics are wide in scope, ranging from
the discourse of social decay in contemporary Australian settler
colonialism and the ways infrastructures both create and experience
decay to cultural decay in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil
war and the relations among individual, institutional, and societal
decay in an American high-security prison. By using decay as a
problematic and expounding its mechanisms, conditions, and
temporalities, the contributors provide nuanced and rigorous means
to more fully grapple with the exigencies of the current
sociopolitical moment. Contributors. Cameo Dalley, Peter D. Dwyer,
Akhil Gupta, Ghassan Hage, Michael Herzfeld, Elise Klein, Bart
Klem, Tamara Kohn, Michael Main, Fabio Mattioli, Debra McDougall,
Monica Minnegal, Violeta Schubert
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