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Slow Disturbance - Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier (Hardcover)
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Slow Disturbance - Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier (Hardcover)
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From the late nineteenth through most of the twentieth century, the
evangelical Protestant Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and
Labrador, Canada, created a network of hospitals, schools,
orphanages, stores, and industries with the goal of bringing health
and organized society to settler fisherfolk and Indigenous
populations. This infrastructure also served to support resource
extraction of fisheries off Labrador's coast. In Slow Disturbance
Rafico Ruiz engages with the Grenfell Mission to theorize how
settler colonialism establishes itself through what he calls
infrastructural mediation-the ways in which colonial lifeworlds,
subjectivities, and affects come into being through the creation
and maintenance of infrastructures. Drawing on archival documents,
maps, interviews with municipal officials, teachers, and residents,
as well as his field photography, Ruiz shows how the mission's
infrastructural mediation-from its attempts to restructure the
local economy to the aerial surveying and mapping of the
coastline-responded to the colony's environmental conditions in
ways that expanded the bounds of the settler frontier. By tracing
the mission's history and the mechanisms that enabled its
functioning, Ruiz complicates understandings of mediation and
infrastructure while expanding current debates surrounding settler
colonialism and extractive capitalism.
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